With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
This is the first page of Hitler's Political Testament. He dictated it to his secretary, Traudl Junge, in his bunker on (it is believed) the 29t...
This is the second page of Hitler's Political Testament which he dictated to his secretary, Traudl Junge, shortly before he committed suicide. T...
This is the third page of Hitler's final Political Testament, dictated to his secretary (Traudl Junge) shortly before he killed himself as the Soviet ...
This is the fourth page of Hitler's Political Testament. He dictated it to his secretary, Traudl Junge, not long before he committed suicide. T...
This is the fifth page of Hitler's Political Testament which he dictated shortly before his death. Translated into English, it says: That fro...
This is the last page of Part One of Hitler's Political Testament. He dictated this document to his secretary, Traudl Junge, not long before he ...
This document, from June of 1943, indicates that the five crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau could process 4,756 "personen" per day. The doc...
Image of a fascimilie copy of the original German transcript of Himmler's speech.
The original of this photograph, and accompanying text, appeared in the August 28, 1944 issue of LIFE Magazine. Robert Sherrod wrote the story; ...
Bookcover image of Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45, by Alan Clark.
American newspapers published the reports that Bataan had fallen. Little did those readers of newspapers really know about what American and Fil...
Image of Japanese propaganda related to the Bataan Death March.
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