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| | | | Hitlist of most visited websites. | | 1 | German war songs [Edit] | Music from WW2 | | Website with music and text of German war songs from WW2. | | 2 | Second World War in Europe [Edit] | Second World War | |  Website on the war in Europe with the following sections: WWII In Europe, a summary of W.W.II Facts & Statistics, the W.W.II weapons, W.W.II photos, W.W.II Memoirs, brief W.W.II biographies, a recommended books and movies list and a W.W.II linkspage. | | 3 | Military modelling [Edit] | Service | | Linkpage with alot of interesting links that give a insight in the world of military modelling. | | 4 | Oflag 79 [Edit] | POW | | Small webpage with some information, photographs and eyewittness accounts on the POW camp near Waggum, Germany. | | 5 | Ellis Pierson [Edit] | Personal accounts | | Account of Technical sergeant Ellis Pierson on his captivity in Stalag VIIA. | | There are more links |
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| | | | Men's greatest achievement, the development of the atomic weapon. See the horrors caused by the use of this weapon. | | 1 | A - Bomb decision [Edit] | A-bomb | |  | | 2 | A - bombs [Edit] | A-bomb | | | | 3 | A-bomb remembered [Edit] | A-bomb | |  At 2:45 in the morning of August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber flew north from Tinian Island in the Marianas toward Japan. Three and a half hours later, over the city of Hiroshima, the Enola Gay dropped an 8,900-pound atomic weapon from its specially modified bomb bay. Two thousand feet above the ground, the bomb, dubbed "Little Boy" by its makers, detonated, leveling almost 90% of the city. | | 4 | Avalon project of Yale Law School [Edit] | A-bomb | |  | | 5 | Enola Gay [Edit] | A-bomb | |  | | There are more links |
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 Lathbury, Gerald (en) [Edit]
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Summary: At Arnhem, Lathbury and his Brigade were charged with the task of capturing three bridges near Arnhem (Netherlands) on the first day, and then holding them until the remainder of the Division arrived 24 hours later to reinforce them. He felt Generaal Montgomery plan wasn't the best possible option. (Operation Marketgarden)
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| | | | Which person is searched for most? What you see is just the top 5. See the rest too. | | 1 | Alexander, Harold [Edit] | Military | | 1891 | 1969 | Field Marshal. | Governer of Canada after the war. | |  Responsible for the bombing of the convent at Monte Casino. After a repeated request of General Freyberg he ordered bombers to drop bombs on the convent, while no single shot was fired from this convent. | | 2 | Bothe, Herta [Edit] | Collaborator | | 1921 | | Wardress | Sentenced to 10 years but released after 6 years | |  At the young age of 21, Herta Bothe began her training as a concentration camp wardress in Sept. of 1942 at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, (a camp specifically designed for women), located in northern Germany. She would undergo 4 weeks of training for what was considered to be a simple job of overseeing prisoners of the Reich. After her training at Ravensbruck camp, she was then transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp which was located at the Poland / East Prussian border. She remained on duty at Stutthof until 1944, and then was briefly assigned to guard duty at a sub-camp of Stutthof, known as "Bromberg - Ost". Eventually the well seasoned female wardress would end up being transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, between Feb. 20-26 of 1945 to carry out her final duties just before the camps liberation on April 15th,1945. | | 3 | Adenauer, Konrad [Edit] | Politician | | 5 Jan 1876 | 19 Apr 1967 | Major of Cologne. | Chancelor of Germany in 1949. | |  Mayor of Cologne and was arrested because of his anti nazi sympathies. He removed the naziflags from Cologne and refused to meet Hitler. He was reinstated as Major by the Americans after the war but removed from office by the English for incompetence. He became Chancelor of Germany in 1949. | | 4 | King, Ernest [Edit] | Military | | 1878 | 1956 | Admiral. | Died on June 25th 1956. | |  American commander of the Allied fleet in the Mediteranean, which played an important role in the support of the invasion forces. | | 5 | Cassutto, Ernest [Edit] | Victim | | 1 Dec 1919 | Mar 1985 | Student. | Survived the war. | |  The Jewish Cassutto went into hidding untill March 1944, was caught and forced to work for the Nazi's in the Rotterdam area. He was able to escape with the help of a friendly guard and the resistance, two days before the German's retreated. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | Traitors and collaborators, find them in our database. | | 1 | Bothe, Herta [Edit] | Collaborator | | 1921 | | Wardress | Sentenced to 10 years but released after 6 years | | At the young age of 21, Herta Bothe began her training as a concentration camp wardress in Sept. of 1942 at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, (a camp specifically designed for women), located in northern Germany. She would undergo 4 weeks of training for what was considered to be a simple job of overseeing prisoners of the Reich. After her training at Ravensbruck camp, she was then transferred to the Stutthof concentration camp which was located at the Poland / East Prussian border. She remained on duty at Stutthof until 1944, and then was briefly assigned to guard duty at a sub-camp of Stutthof, known as "Bromberg - Ost". Eventually the well seasoned female wardress would end up being transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, between Feb. 20-26 of 1945 to carry out her final duties just before the camps liberation on April 15th,1945. | | 2 | Braun, Eva [Edit] | Collaborator | | 6 Feb 1912 | 30 Apr 1945 | Secretary | Suicide with her lover, Adolf Hitler. | |  Eva was Hitler's lover. Both of them committed suicide when the Russian Red Army was in the proces of liberating Berlin and where on their way to Berchtesgarten. Eva married Hitler just a few hours before she committed suicide. | | 3 | Bruin, Piet de [Edit] | Collaborator | | | | SS-Untersturmführer. | Received numerous decorations for bravery. | |  He served in the 8. 10. SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt. 'Westland', II and with the 'Landwacht Niederlande. He was educated at the Junkerschule in Prague and fought in the Halbe Pocket, where a lot of Dutch soldiers in the German Army lost their lives. | | 4 | Bruins, Derk [Edit] | Collaborator | | 20 Mar 1923 | 5 Feb 1986 | SS-Oberscharführer. | Married a German woman to avoid a trail for collaboration. | |  Voluntered for duty in the Waffen SS and erved in the SS-Frw.Standarte 'Nordwest', de 4.SS-Frw.Brigade 'Nederland' en in de 23.SS-Frw.Pz.Gren.Div.'Nederland'. He escaped before his trail for collaborating to Germany and married a German woman in 1950 and gaining German citizenship. | | 5 | Degrelle, Leon [Edit] | Collaborator | | 15 Jun 1906 | 31 Mar 1994 | Founder of Légion Wallonie. | In absence sentenced to death | |  Founder of the fascist movement 'Rexism'. This movement was a big succes because of his eloquence and his dynamic atitude. Members of this movement were mostly French speaking Belgians. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | Militairy personell of the Allied and Axe Forces. Enter a name or a word and find them. | | 1 | Ainsworth, Walden [Edit] | Military | | 10 Nov 1886 | 7 Aug 1960 | Rear Admiral. | He died in Washington D.C. on 7 August 1960 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetary with full | |  On 4 July 1942, Ainsworth took administrative command of all Pacific Fleet destroyers. On 10 December of that year, Admiral Halsey gave him the additional duty of commanding Task Force 67 which had been badly mauled in the recent Battle of Tassafaronga. Under his dynamic leadership that cruiser destroyer force was soon winning renown as the "Ainsworth Express" for its fierce fighting in support of the final drive to push Japanese troops off Guadalcanal. Its bombardment of the new Japanese air base at Munda on the island of New Georgia would be, in the words of naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, "...long regarded as a model for naval gunnery...". | | 2 | Aldcroft, Alan [Edit] | Military | | | | | | | Alan Aldcroft joined the 4th Parachute Squadron in 1943 and served with them in Italy. When they returned to England and a prolonged period of frustrated inactivity followed, many men took to going AWOL by adopting a lax attitude to honouring the terms of their leave passes. Aldcroft had married a local girl in June 1944. He participated in the operation Marketgarden and was parachuted over the Ginkelse heide where he was captured by the Germans. Alan Aldcroft was amongst a column of British POW's being marched away from the Renkum area, when a German corporal climbed out of his trench and opened fire upon the helpless prisoners with a captured British machine-gun. Lieutenant Skinner of 261 Field Park Company was killed instantly and a number of men were wounded, including Captain Muir of the Glider Pilot Regiment, who died of his injuries on Monday 25th September. | | 3 | Alexander, Harold [Edit] | Military | | 1891 | 1969 | Field Marshal. | Governer of Canada after the war. | | Responsible for the bombing of the convent at Monte Casino. After a repeated request of General Freyberg he ordered bombers to drop bombs on the convent, while no single shot was fired from this convent. | | 4 | Allen, Terry [Edit] | Military | | 1 Apr 1888 | 1969 | Commander of 104th Infantry Division. | Buried on the National Cemetery Ft. Bliss. | |  Fairly unknown general, who fought bravely aside Patton in France and Belgium. He is the only general who never lost a battle. | | 5 | Ambrosio, Vittorio [Edit] | Military | | 28 Jul 1879 | 18 Nov 1958 | General. | Dismissed by Prime Minister Badoglio after the surrender of Italy. Died in 1950. | |  Italy's Chief of Staff who strongly opposed Italy being a satellite of Germany and tried to sway Mussolini from Hitler's influence but realized he could not. He planned to overthrow Mussolini while pretending to be loyal to the Germans, but the Germans ended up occupying northern Italy instead. Because the Allies didn't trust him, Prime Minister Badoglio fired him. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | Major Allied and Axe politicians. Search our databse. | | 1 | Adenauer, Konrad [Edit] | Politician | | 5 Jan 1876 | 19 Apr 1967 | Major of Cologne. | Chancelor of Germany in 1949. | | Mayor of Cologne and was arrested because of his anti nazi sympathies. He removed the naziflags from Cologne and refused to meet Hitler. He was reinstated as Major by the Americans after the war but removed from office by the English for incompetence. He became Chancelor of Germany in 1949. | | 2 | Amery, Leopold [Edit] | Politician | | 22 Nov 1873 | 16 Sep 1955 | Secretary of State for India and Burma. | Lost the elections of '45 and thus lost his seat. | |  A member of the Conservative Party, in 1911 Amery was elected to represent Sparkbrook, Birmingham, in the House of Commons. In the government headed by David Lloyd George, he served as under-secretary of state for the colonies (1919-21). This was followed by the post of First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24) and then colonial secretary (1924-29). After Churchill became Prime Minister Amery was appointed Secretary of State for India and Burma. He set up a committee to advise Churchill on strategy's to fight the Japanese in India. | | 3 | Anderson, John [Edit] | Politician | | 8 Jul 1882 | 4 Jan 1958 | Chancellor of the Exchequer. | John Anderson died in London on 4th January 1958. | |  Anderson joined the War Cabinet in October 1940 as Lord President of the Council. In this post he was responsible for organizing civilian and economic resources. He was also responsible for suppressing the Communist Party supporting the Daily Worker. In October 1943 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer where he introduced the PAYE system for income tax payment. | | 4 | Attlee, Clement Richard [Edit] | Politician | | 3 Jan 1883 | 8 Oct 1967 | Britsh Prime Minister. | | |  In May 1940 he supported the prime ministry of Winston Churchill, and, during the war, served in the war cabinet as lord privy seal (1940-42), deputy prime minister (1942-45), secretary of state for the dominions (1942-43), and lord president of the council (1943-45). | | 5 | Ba Maw [Edit] | Politician | | 8 Feb 1893 | 29 May 1977 | Prime minister of Burma | Arrested and interned by the Americans in Tokyo | |  Prime Minister during the Japanese occupation of Burma. He was appointed national leader by the Japanese. In 1943 Burma was declared independent and he was appointed head of state. He had no real power since the Japanese ruled the country. When the British overran Burma he was arrested and jailed. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | The relatively small acts of ordinary people made the difference. Search our database. | | 1 | Abegg, Elisabeth [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | 1882 | 1957 | History teacher | Fired in 1933 due to her anti nazi sentiments. | |  Abegg was involved in a group of Quakers activists who provided shelter and escape routes for Jews. She also teached children of Jewish refugees and provided them with food, false identity papers and money to bribe Germans. | | 2 | Andre, Joseph [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | 1908 | 1973 | Monc | Righteous Among the Nations. | |  Helped to save 100s of Jewish children and worked closely with the Commitee of Jewish Defense, an illegal salvage operation. He traveled around and used houses, churches and concents as hidingplace for the children. He had to go into hiding untill the liberation of Namen in 1944 after which he deliverd the at Jewish organizations. | | 3 | Anger, Per [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | 1913 | 2002 | Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest, Hungary | Anger died in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 26, 2002. Righteous Among the Nations | |  Per Anger kept the Swedish Embassy open in Hungary and worked closely with Raoul Wallenberg. He personally intervened on behalf of Jews who were being deported to the Nazi death camps. On other occasions, Anger rescued Jews from Nazi death marches leaving Budapest. Consul Anger is credited with saving thousands of Jews from the spring of 1944 until the end of the war in May 1945. Anger died in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 26, 2002. | | 4 | Anishkewicz, Wanda [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | | | | Righteous Among the People. | |  On November 22th 1942 the Ghetto of Dunilowicze was destroyed. All 888 Jewish inhabitants were chased into a chet and murdered. Jeremiah Slawin and his family had made preperations to escape this upcoming slaughter. They escaped to the nearby forest and found shelter at the Anishkewicz family who were able to hide them untill the spring of 1943. | | 5 | Bardone, Lea en Oswaldo [Edit] | Member of Resistance | | | | Restaurant keeper. | Righteous Among the Nations. | |  Lea and her husband, who was a unionleader became involved in the resistance because an acquantance asked for their help. The restaurant the had became a front for the resistance. Oswalda was arrested whilst delivering illegal papers. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | Victims of the nazi brutallity and war violence. Search our database. | | 1 | Bem, Esther [Edit] | Victim | | 1931 | | | Survived the war in Italy | | She fled with her parents to a little village in Italy where she found refuge with farmers. On the advice of the local priest she told the authoritues they were Italian and resisted the hours of questioning by the SS. The identity they told the SS was noted in the records and they became the Taminos family. | | 2 | Cassutto, Ernest [Edit] | Victim | | 1 Dec 1919 | Mar 1985 | Student. | Survived the war. | | The Jewish Cassutto went into hidding untill March 1944, was caught and forced to work for the Nazi's in the Rotterdam area. He was able to escape with the help of a friendly guard and the resistance, two days before the German's retreated. | | 3 | Cohn, Paul [Edit] | Victim | | 1924 | | Professor. | Paul became Astor Professor at University College London. | |  Participant of the so called "Kindertransporte". Jewish children were transported from Germany to England in 1939. These transports were for children only, so the parents weren't allowed to join. Paul left Germany on May 21st, 1939 and went to a chickenfarm were he had to work. | | 4 | Ginger [Edit] | Victim | | 1924 | | | | |  As a seventeen year old girl Ginger wrote an eyewittness account of the bombardement on Hickam Field and Pearl Harbor. | | 5 | Hillesum, Etty [Edit] | Victim | | 15 Jan 1914 | 30 Nov 1943 | Lawyer and psycologist. | Gassed in Auschwitz on November 30th 1943. | |  Hetty is a young Jewish woman, who doesn't want to go into hiding. In July 1942 she went to Westerbork camp (at her own request). In June 1943 she was placed indefenite in Westerbork camp. On December 7th she, her parents and her brother were deported to Auschwitz were she was killed in the gas chamber. | | There are more persons of war |
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| | | | The role the European Royalty played in W.W.II is much debated. Search our database. | | 1 | Albert I [Edit] | Royalty | | 1909 | 1934 | Third King the Belgians. | Killed in an accident. | |  Albert ascended the throne on the death of his uncle, Leopold II, in 1909, due to the death of the intended heirs. Leopold's son died, then his nephew, which left Albert to reign at 16 years old. He was reserved, an avid reader and loved the outdoors. His interests included horseback riding and rock climbing. | | 2 | Boris III [Edit] | Royalty | | 1894 | 1943 | King of Bulgaria | Died under suspicious circumstances after a meeting with Hitler. | |  The Third Bulgarian Kingdom was a constitutional monarchy with a very democratic constitution. Although pro-German, Bulgaria did not take part in World War II with its armed forces. King Boris III was always trying to find diplomatic solutions to the difficult problems of the time. He joined the Axis to prevent an imminent German invasion in Bulgaria, but he refused to send Bulgarian troops to German aid on the Eastern front. He however declared Bulgaria an axes country because of the possible gain of territory. Although the army didn't participate in full scale operations, they did aid in the invasion of Yugoslavia and fought Tito and the Yugoslav partizans. | | 3 | Carol II [Edit] | Royalty | | 3 Oct 1893 | 1957 | King of Romania. | Abdicated in 1940 under pressure from his people. | |  In 1940, following a treaty between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR, Romania lost Besarabia and Northern Bucovina to USSR and northwestern Transilvania to Hungary. All this happened without a single gun to be fired. Carol found himself without internal or external political support, facing rallies throughout the country militating against him. In September 1940 Carol gives up most of his decision-making powers in favor of General Ion Antonescu who becomes the head of state. More than that, the next day, on September 6, 1940 Antonescu forces Carol to abdicate and Mihail becomes for the second time King of Romania. He was only 19. Antonescu was the actual new ruler of Romania. | | 4 | Farouk I [Edit] | Royalty | | 1920 | 1965 | King of Egypt. | After the coup of 1952 he went in exile in Italy. | |  Farouk was pro Axis but bound by a treaty to Great Britain. He believed that the Axis powers would give Egypt her independence and he followed a policy of being nominally pro-British but retained a pro-Nazi Cabinet. When the Axis powers were on the brink of defeat Egypt declared war on Germany and Italy. | | 5 | George VI [Edit] | Royalty | | 14 Dec 1895 | 6 Feb 1952 | King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | He died on 6 February 1952, Sandringham, Norfolk, England. | |  Great Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. George visited troops, munitions factories, supply docks and bomb-damaged areas to support the war effort. As the Nazi's bombed London, the royal family remained at Buckingham Palace; George went so far as to practice firing his revolver, vowing that he would defend Buckingham to the death. The actions of the King and Queen during the war years greatly added to the prestige of the monarchy. | | There are more persons of war |
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