Second World War

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• Hardware findings 1
• War at sea 5
• War in the air 8
• War crimes 24
• Ammunition and weapons 0
• Remembrance events 0
• Period photographs 0
• The end of the war in the Czech Republic 2
• War treasures 5
• Nazi treasures 5
• Fortification 1

Where did the Nazi gold go? The gold train in Poland

It is generally known that the Nazis bought up huge amounts of valuables, art objects and especially gold in occupied Europe. They tried to take this loot to the safety of Germany during the retreat, or hid it in times of need. This created many treasures that are still being sought today. The problem with prospectors is that they usually lack critical thinking, focus on one (often dubious) piece of information that they believe, and fanatically embark on a search. One of these great and legendary Nazi treasures is the "Golden Train", which is thegold, art and valuables from the advancing Red Army from the city of Breslau (nowadays Wroclaw in Czech).

Dogs in SS units

A very good friend of mine, nicknamed Hombré since childhood, was born at the end of the 1930s. He was a serious shooter from his youth, who was not afraid of anything and went headlong into every adventure. He was very fond of dogs and from childhood he was fascinated by large dogs in particular. When the Germans were marching back to the Reich in the spring of '45 after losing the war, a German unit stopped in our village. The people were still afraid of the Germans, so the hungry and exhausted soldiers got a dumpling there, a pancake elsewhere and some coffee...

DIVORCED MEZE - 70 years since the end of the first stage of collectivisation

A few days ago I was driving between Oslov and Vlastec in South Bohemia and my attention was drawn to a Stalinec crawler bulldozer standing by the roadside in a field. Looking behind it at the wide ploughed fields, the idea for an article on this topic flashed through my mind. My ancestors were farmers, my grandfather was a farmer and we still own a nice few acres of fields and meadows. Therefore, this topic is somehow close to my heart even though the consequences of this action were fatal.The ploughing up of meadows and copses is nowadays often associated with landscape ecology, and this intervention in the Czech landscape was clearly a serious intervention and it changed and irreversibly damaged the Czech landscape.

The Battle of the Bulge in the light of new knowledge thanks to modern technology

Archaeologists have explored part of the Second World War battlefield in the Ardennes with the help of a drone equipped with a high-resolution lidar device. Thanks to laser imagery, the site, now covered by dense vegetation, has revealed almost 1,000 previously unknown features and for the first time ever, experts were able to study the site comprehensively...

Jewish Treasure from World War II

Last week, a Jewish treasure from the Second World War was uncovered during construction work in Polocka Street in Łódź. In the last six months, this is the second similar set of objects stored in fear of the Nazis, quite possibly collected by several families together before being transported to a concentration camp.

Dictator's watch sold for 26.5 million

The object, which gives you "chills", was offered by the American auction house Alexander Historical Auctions. It is a gold watch of Adolf Hitler. It sold for 1.1 million dollars (26.5 million crowns). In the past, the auction house has, for example, auctioned the dictator's toilet seat. The auction outraged the Jews.

Poles find mass graves of Nazi victims

Graves with the remains of 8 000 people were found by investigators in Poland near the site of the Soldau concentration camp. The Germans wanted to hide the burial pits. They burned the bodies, buried them and planted trees. The victims included members of the Polish elite, soldiers, resistance fighters and Jews.

13.5.2019 24 jewels and 2776 gold and silver coins

A real treasure was discovered in the cellar of a house in the former Jewish ghetto in Keszthely. It contained 24 jewels and 2,776 rare gold and silver coins. The original owners of this wealth are believed to have died in a concentration camp.

New treasures of the Spanish galleon 366 years after the sinking

In 1656, the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) was wrecked on the west side of Little Bahama Bank about 70 km off the coast. It was literally stuffed with treasure, which is why it was repeatedly plundered by various societies and wild expeditions over the following centuries. When another expedition went to the site recently, few imagined there was anything left on the seabed...