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On the afternoon of September 8,1944, an open limousine bearing a distinguished white-haired gentleman stopped at a grand turreted castle in southwest Germany. It was none other than French war [...]

THE FIRST TIME I RECALL hearing about Stettin, or Szczecin as it is called in Polish, was in the famous speech Winston Churchill gave at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, [...]

Picture the last agonizing hours of a man wrongly condemned. The painful regrets over a promising career cut short; a final appeal for pardon, denied; the heart-wrenching letters to loved [...]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of travelling to and visiting the Merkers Erlebnisbergwerk (Adventure Mine) in Merkers, Germany.

HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME Directed by Thomas Heise. 218 minutes. Icarus Films, premiering Friday, March 13, 2020; scheduled for release on DVD/ Home Video on Avril 14, 2020. [...]

The article focuses on the Henri Philippe Pétain was a French general officer who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I. Topics include the 84-year-old Pétain was named French prime minister after a cabinet crisis on whether to continue fighting the Germans or lay down arms; and before the war, Pétain was widely admired by French nationalists who remembered his battlefield courage in World War I and his strategic acumen later as Minister of War.

The article reports that a decorated U-boat captain's criticism of the Nazi regime sealed his fate at the hands of a German firing squad. Topics include from his solitary cell, a decorated U-boat captain pours the final expression of his torment into sketches of his impending death and Oskar Kusch would go down in history as the only German U-boat captain to be executed for daring to speak out against Hitler and his regime.