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Here you will find a growing number of articles about this website, personal views and interesting posts about WWII. Great WWII museums, WWII related books, national archives and other points of interest.

How it started...

In 1999, I drove down to Normandy with my wife for a weekend to visit my parents who were enjoying a two week holiday there. A visit to the local museum there changed my life. Sure a lot has been w...

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German Russian Museum Berlin

The Second World War ended in Europe with an act of unconditional surrender in our house. On 8 May 1945 the High Command of the German Wehrmacht signed a document of unconditional surrender in fron...

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Cigarette box of a prisoner of war from Camp Amersfoort found!

A small aluminum tin with an engraved portrait, a name in Cyrillic script and a date: it was accidentally excavated at the site of former Camp Amersfoort at the end of last month and is tangible ev...

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Stephen Ambrose Tours

Live the memory of a lifetime on a historical or WWII tour by Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours! Our Founder Stephen E. Ambrose, author of the best-selling books, Band of Brothers, D-Day: ...

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Liberation of The Netherlands

After the Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944, the western Allies rapidly advanced in the direction of the Dutch border. Tuesday 5 September is known as Dolle dinsdag ("mad Tuesday") the ...

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Wannsee Conference Memorial

I visited this memorial last year. The Wannsee Conference (German: Wannsee konferenz) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin...

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Auschwitz, the Exhibition

Auschwitz was the largest and most lethal of all the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. More than 1,100,000 people were murdered behind its barbed-wire fences between May 1940 and J...

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Big Red One Assault Museum

On one of my many trips to Normandy I visited the The Big Red One Assault Museum in Colleville-sur-Mer. Owned by Pierre Louis Gosselin, this US 1st Infantry Division or “Big Red One” museum, is an ...

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The SNAFU special C47

This mindboggling project lead by Patrick Elie (the man with the biggest knowledge of D-Day and the Invasion), is simply breathtaking! With a group of enthousiast and highly devoted people and volu...

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