By Gene E. Salecker
The first explosion came as a complete surprise to everyone around Pearl Harbor. The Sunday had started out clear and bright, but the sky quickly darkened as great clouds of thick black smoke rose high above the burning ships.
Fuel oil spilled atop the water and caught fire,   More »

The escape of U.S. gunboats from China in 1941 proved to be a heroic chapter in the history of the navy.   More »

Soldatenkaffee, Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia has recently re-opened, following a supposed overhaul of its heavily Nazi-themed atmosphere.   More »

In 2003, Germany honored Georg Elser with a postage stamp bearing the reasons for his desperate and heroic actions: “I wanted to prevent the war.”   More »

After escaping from Germany and Austria, a number of Jews joined the Allied armies to take back their former homelands from the Nazis.   More »

Adolf Hitler remains the personification of evil. But who was the man behind the persona? The new WHN Adolf Hitler Special Issue gives the answers.   More »

Seventy years later, should the “Desert Fox” be considered an anti-Nazi hero or a faithful soldier turned opportunist?   More »

London’s Imperial War Museum is a “must-see” on any visit to England.   More »

The naval combat that raged around the Philippines invasion was preceded by a game of reconnaisance, intelligence gathering, and planning.   More »

Aside from the well-known Holocaust against the Jews, Gypsies, and Poles, the Nazis also persecuted Jehova’s Witnesses and homosexuals.   More »