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.
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE.
WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.
Auschwitz I and II (the latter known as Birkenau) were located near the Polish town of Oswiecim.
In this news-reel clip we see 5th Division Marines advancing on Iwo Jima behind artillery, naval, and aerial bombardment.
Early investigative reports, regarding the disaster of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, reveal that it was likely destroyed by a surface-to-air (SAM) m...
The railway carriage in which Germany surrendered to France, at the end of World War I, had been housed in a French museum.
The French prime minister, Paul Reynaud, was still resisting Hitler - on the 12th of June, 1940 - despite significant advances Germany had made into F...
The North Atlantic seas south of Iceland were relatively calm on May 9, 1941 as a British convoy made its way from England to Nova Scotia.
General Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) returns to England, France and America as a military hero after Germany's surrender.
As rationing takes hold throughout Britain, the residents of Buckingham Palace also eat food they'd never had before.
As Europe succumbs to the Nazi blitzkrieg, the Netherlands also falls.
A German U-boat was a lethal weapon during World World II, especially through 1943.
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