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The US military dubbed it Operation Santa Claus. Their massive operation to bring home all the American soldiers, sailors and airmen who had fought against Hitler in the Second World…

Dachau prisoners parade on the Appelplatz (Roll Call Square) before assembled SS men.                                Image Wikimedia Commons During…

In the mid ‘thirties, Europe’s largest organic herb farm was established some 16 km north-west of Munich. For months, hundreds of labourers worked from dawn to dusk, seven days a…

In October, 1918, a hysterically blind Adolf Hitler was transported by rail to a small mental hospital, or nerve clinic, some 600 miles from the Western Front and not far from…

  In my previous Blog I described how, in October 1918, Hitler became hysterically blind and was sent for treatment to a small mental hospital in the remote Pomeranian town…

In my previous Blog, I described how Hitler was blinded by a British gas attack, on October 1918, while fighting with the List Regiment outside the Belgium town of Wervicq.…

On October 15th, 1918, Adolf Hitler,  a Meldeganger or Company runner with the 16th List Regiment, was stationed in the war devastated  Belgium town of Wervicq-Sud on the River Lys. The…

The idea of using gas to kill, disable or harass, the enemy was first proposed during the Crimean War. At the siege of Sebastopol, in 1855, a young naval officer,…

The night of October 1st, 1916, was moonless with visibility further restricted by patches of dense fog. Just before 10 o’clock, Second Lieutenant Wulstan Joseph Tempest took off from his…

  In  the 50s  soldiers were routinely exposed to atomic bomb tests with little concern being expressed about its long-term health implications. The  video, from  1957, provides a hideous reminder…