WW2 Anniversary

|   9 April 2012

What would the British have done?

It’s not hard to understand why the British feel so proud about their role in the Second World War. The undeniable truth is that this country, led by Winston Churchill, held out against the Germans in 1940 and thus prevented the Nazi domination of Western Europe. And, of course, by thwarting the Germans the British […]

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WW2History.com News

|   30 March 2012

WW2History will soon be free!

Soon the lock is coming off… From the start of May – the second anniversary of the launch of the site – WW2History.com will become a free resource that anyone can access. This means that we will no longer be taking any subscriptions from today, before the site itself goes free on Tuesday 1 May. […]

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WW2 Anniversary

|   24 March 2012

Foreigners to Auschwitz

Auschwitz Seventy years ago this week an event of enormous significance took place. The first Jews from outside Poland were deported to Auschwitz. It’s significant not just because these Jews were from another European country – the first of many – but because of the deal under which they were sent. It was a shocking […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   10 March 2012

Goebbels and persuasion

I think a lot, as regular readers of this blog might know, about why we believe what we believe. Why do we hold the opinions we do? Is it because of our education, the influence of our peers, our parents, our life experience – or some deep needs within us? I know this is also […]

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WW2 Competitions

|   1 March 2012

Winter Competition

Congratulations to Mr Barnetson of Moray in Scotland who was the first subscriber to WW2History.com picked from all those who gave the correct answer to our Winter Competition. The question we posed was: After one [bombing] raid on Germany  the 8th Army Air Force suffered such bad losses – more than 70 planes were destroyed […]

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WW2 Relevance

|   23 February 2012

Things Change

Filming in Red Square, Moscow, 1989. An old colleague of mine was clearing out some junk and found this photo. It’s me in Red Square not long before Communism fell and the Soviet Union was disbanded. I loathed the Soviet Union.  From the trivial reasons – the food was appalling and so was the service […]

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WW2 Anniversary

|   10 February 2012

Bombing Germany

German civilians living in cities like this were now legitimate targets for the British Seventy years ago this month the British took a decision which, just before the war, they would have considered against International Law – they decided that German civilians were a legitimate target for RAF Bomber Command. An Air Ministry directive of […]

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WW2 People

|   29 January 2012

Flying into Stalingrad

The ruins of Stalingrad Imagine the scene. It’s December 1942 and you are a German officer who has just recovered from sickness, when you are told to report to your commanding General. He tells you that you are to be flown into the besieged German held area around Stalingrad where your comrades in the Sixth […]

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WW2 Anniversary

|   17 January 2012

Misunderstanding Wannsee

The Wannsee conference was held here at 56–58 Am Grossen Wannsee. Seventy years ago this month – on 20 January 1942 to be precise – one of the most infamous meetings of WW2, indeed of the 20th century, was held on the shores of the Wannsee on the outskirts of Berlin.   And, as I know […]

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WW2 Anniversary

|   7 January 2012

Humiliation in Singapore

The WW2 guns of Singapore point south. I was in Singapore this week – which was an education in itself as one witnesses first hand how many of the Asian economies seem to be outstripping debt struck Europe. But I was also seeing first hand the sight of what, seventy years ago, Winston Churchill called […]

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