News

HistoryAtWar on MSN2h
The Final Days of the Reich: French, Nordic, and Hitler Youth Forces in Berlin’s Inferno
The Third Reich was collapsing, and Berlin had become a furnace of fire and ruin. But among the rubble, a desperate coalition ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel2hOpinion
Comparing Germany & the US South’s Reflections of the Wars They Instigated
In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial ...
HistoryAtWar on MSN4h
The Frozen Hell of 1941: How Hitler’s Elite Paratroopers Were Left to Die in the Snow
As winter fell over the Eastern Front, the elite paratroopers of the 7th Flieger Division were no longer sky-born shock ...
Critics have an even more controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’
The disparaging, historically loaded nickname for the facility popped up on Bluesky, X and other social media platforms, and ...
Dark Docs on MSN5h
A Bomb Right Under This Table Just Missed Hitler and Almost Ended WW2
German army officer Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his ...
Europe’s Crackdown on Speech Goes Far and Wide
Loosely defined hate-speech laws and the rise of social media have led to zealous policing, resulting in fines and prison ...
WW2 Wayfinder on MSN10h
Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany: The Harsh Reality of Stalag VIIA
By early 1945, thousands of Allied prisoners of war held in Nazi Germany believed their captivity was nearly over. Instead, they were forced on a brutal three-month march across Germany before ...