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Slávka Altmanová was born on 8 August 1923 in Volhynia. She witnessed the Soviet invasion in 1939 as well as the German ...
#Biografia
Richard Smola was born in Pilsen on the 3 June 1930. He witnessed the bombing of the city and its liberation by U.S. for...
Mapping the terrain of the beaches in Normandy was essential in preparing suitable landing craft and training troops for...
#Storia
During the preparations for D-Day, civilians in Southeast England saw thousands of troops and vehicles descend upon thei...
Jimmy Tompkins was a professional footballer who played for Fulham FC based at Craven Cottage stadium in Fulham. Tompkin...
The Women’s Royal Naval Service, or WRNS/Wrens, was re-established in 1939 and to take up a number of ancillary duties s...
Evelyn Lipmann sopravvisse a quattro campi di concentramento e fu finalmente liberata dal campo di Salzwedel nell'aprile...
Gustav Krukenberg was an SS general, who commanded several European Waffen-SS units during the Battle of Berlin....
Helmuth Weidling was a German general and the last commander of the Berlin defence area during the Battle of Berlin. On ...
Hanna Reitsch was a famous female test pilot in Nazi Germany, who among a few women was awarded with both classes of the...
Brigadier Miroslav Štandera was a Czech fighter pilot who fled Czechoslovakia after Nazi Germany occupied the country in...
Miluše Axamitová was born in 1929 near the city of Pilsen. She lived through the German occupation and witnessed Allied ...
Michal Brummel was born on 27 May 1933. His father came from a wealthy Jewish family, his mother was a Catholic from Aus...
William McBurney fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of the U.S. 761st Tank Battalion. As an African-American ...
Warren Crecy joined the U.S. Army when he was 19 years old. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a member of the 761s...
Suzanne Grégoire was an ardent communist activist. She dedicated her life to women’s rights and female activism. During ...
Nikolaus Brüll was born in 1922 in Eupen, a formerly German city annexed by Belgium after the First World War. Nikolaus'...
La storia della vita di Malka Zimetbaum ci porta dalla Polonia al Belgio e di nuovo a una tragica fine in Polonia. Oggi ...
Marie Vassiltchikov was a Russian princess, who wrote her Berlin Diaries from 1940 to 1945. These diaries describe the e...
Valery Faminsky was a Red Army photographer who made a number of photos during and after the Battle of Berlin. His warti...
Wilhelm Mohnke was an SS general. He commanded the SS guard units that protected the city centre and the government dist...
Vasily Chuikov was Marshal of the Soviet Union, who accepted the surrender of the German garrison of Berlin in May 1945....
Hans Fritzsche was a senior Nazi official of the Reich Propaganda Ministry who offered to surrender the city to the Red ...
The Second World War greatly disrupted the societies of the countries involved. As many men volunteered or were called u...
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