. Operation Barbarossa was probably the largest land campaign ever waged. It is possible that the Han invasion of the Yangste valley in …
Hitler Was So Convinced Of His Superiority, He Failed To Plan For Failure. Read More »
Josef Stalin Stalin had a stroke in 1953. He was in his workroom at the time. Of course he might have been saved …
The Similarities Between Stalin And Hitler’s Backgrounds are Amazing. Read More »
Hitler perhaps more so than any tyrant before him survived by creating competing police organizations. These volatile and lethal organizations were …
. . The Atlantic Wall was one of the largest defensive structures ever built. It can be counted in complexity and cost to the …
Nothing Quite Says It’s Over Than Your Enemy’s Flag On Your Capitol. By the Spring of 1945, the Germans …
Benito Mussolini The Treaty of Lussaune was the opening play in the Italian annexation of Libya into their empire. It was signed …
Mussolini thought he had a powerful army. The British delivered his first wake up call. Read More »
Pervitin, the Wehrmacht’s Methylamphetamine. The Nazis went into Poland and France high as a kite, quite literally. Without tracking the reaction to drugs, German officers …
The Wehrmacht’s Secret Weapon: Methamphetamine. Read More »
On his way to power, there were many who suffered at the hands of his proxies and his insane lieges. Not surprisingly, some 130,000 dissident …
Nazi Rally . Like any nation with a millennium old recorded history, Germany swims in a sea of memes about what it means to be …
In World War II, Design Was The Biggest Weapon Of All. Read More »
If Stalin was anything, he was paranoid. Some of his paranoia was well founded. He was a murderous, obstreperous tyrant who saw …
Why The Wehrmacht Overwhelmed The Russians At Barbarossa. Read More »
We know from films and excerpts from diaries of those around him that Hitler had Parkinson’s Disease. He had pain and tremors in his …
Hitler’s Flatulence. Read More »
The Abbey was built in AD 524 with 15 feet high ceilings and walls ten feet thick. It was built as the center of Benedictine …
Bombing Monte Cassino In The Italian Campaign. Read More »
Mussolini was totally insane by the time Hitler decided to partner with him. He was in the latter stages of syphilitic megalomania, a disease he …
Mussolini’s Delusions. Hitler’s Disillusionment. Read More »
Oil could have been one of the driving forces behind Operation Barbarossa. Hitler certainly seemed to lose interest in North Africa and had diverted …
Excogitations On Barbarossa. Read More »
Stalin purged his officer corps in the mid thirties. Too many people with access to the hard power of war machines were chafing under the …
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By March 1943, the tide had turned against the German Army, particularly on the Eastern Front. Now, living through their third arctic Soviet winter, the …
Germany In Full Retreat. Read More »
Walter Model, German Commander At Kursk Kursk was also a battle fought with what today we would call close air support. The Junkers …
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Part One After having lost the entire German 6th Army in Stalingrad in February 1943, Hitler, the German Army staff and frankly, the German people …
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