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 historical footage depicts the type of defenses which German forces, and people under their command, built along the French coastline.
This video clip, from a German-language documentary, includes views of German combat planes in action.
Historical footage, featured in this U.
Historical footage of the German invasion of Poland, in 1939, released by the U.
World War II began when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.
This British Newsreel - for the week of May 15, 1940 - tries to put an optimistic spin on events of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and its effo...
The Gestapo derives its name from Geheime Staatspolizei - the secret state police of Nazi Germany.
In July of 1940, Hitler's goal was to intimidate Britain. Britain's goal was to resist Hitler and to eliminate Germany's bombers which were flying ov...
This is archival footage of the actual soldiers who were rescued from the Cabanatuan death camp and the men (including Lt.
The January 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp, conducted by Filipino and American forces, remains one of the most spectacular rescue mi...
As they drifted at sea, the castaways were visited by a Great White.
Exactly eight months to the day, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 11,000 American Marines land on a Pacific island called Guadalcanal. They are about...
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