Evacuation fears for 15,000 people after complete German wartime V-2 Rocket found off British coast. A six-man team of Royal Navy bomb disposal experts are working urgently to make sure the rusting weapon's one-ton warhead won’t detonate By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 18:13 GMT, 29 March 2012 | Updated: 14:56 GMT, 30 March 2012 Great-grandfather Ruben Dace warned police of the V2 missile after watching falling just off the coast of East Anglia.
A modern day mission: Lancaster bomber crew prepares for action 70 years on in remarkable set of airfield pictures. By Emily Allen and Nick Enoch Published: 17:28 GMT, 23 March 2012 | Updated: 23:45 GMT, 23 March 2012 Posing tentatively in their uniforms, at first glance they could be a Lancaster Bomber crew preparing for a daring war-time mission.
But these photos were not taken 70 years ago, but this week at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre - the former Lancaster bomber base at RAF East Kirkby. The year of vengeance. By Dominic Sandbrook Published: 23:10 GMT, 23 March 2012 | Updated: 16:23 GMT, 25 March 2012 Just imagine living in a world in which law and order have broken down completely: a world in which there is no authority, no rules and no sanctions.
In the bombed-out ruins of Europe’s cities, feral gangs scavenge for food. Was the doodlebug Hitler's nemesis? How Fuhrer's obsession with flying bombs failed to 'force England to her knees' By Tony Rennell Published: 01:06 GMT, 23 March 2012 | Updated: 10:25 GMT, 23 March 2012 Britain's military chiefs were adamant in their cold-blooded assessment.
Meeting in secret conclave in Whitehall, they shrugged off the lethal attacks on London by wave after wave of German rockets — Hitler’s dreaded ‘revenge weapons’ — as ‘small scale’ and ‘of no military significance’. Desert Fox? Rommel behaved more like a desert rat: Nazi covered up love affair which led to illegitimate child for sake of his career. Josef Pan's grandmother Walburga had love affair with RommelShe committed suicide when he left her for, and married, Lucie Mollin Walburga bore Rommel illegitimate child, Gertrud, his 'little mouse' By Allan Hall Published: 23:39 GMT, 22 March 2012 | Updated: 10:25 GMT, 23 March 2012 In matters of the heart, it appears Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's ruthless streak got the better of his chivalrous side He is viewed as Hitler’s finest general, respected even by the Allies as a professional and honourable soldier.
But Erwin Rommel was also capable of great cunning, as his opponents learned when they were outmanoeuvred on the battlefields of North Africa. Secret files reveal 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII. As many as 5,000 Nazis went to ArgentinaBetween 1,500 and 2,000 ended up in BrazilAround 500 to 1,000 settled in ChileThe rest started new lives in Paraguay and Uruguay By Allan Hall Published: 14:07 GMT, 19 March 2012 | Updated: 08:38 GMT, 20 March 2012.
Hitler's Los Angeles bunker from which he planned to run Nazi empire after the war. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 12:50 GMT, 18 March 2012 | Updated: 08:01 GMT, 19 March 2012 It sounds like the bizzare script of a Hollywood B-movie.
In a parallel universe the Nazis have won the war, Adolf Hitler moves to LA where he mingles with the stars of the silver screen while running his evil empire from a luxurious ranch deep in the LA hills. But during the 1930s, American sympathisers were so confident this exact scenario was actually going happen they spent millions building a deluxe compound ready for their fuhrer's imminent arrival. Hitler U.S. Leader: Hitler's American followers the Silver Shirts were so confident that he would triumph they spent millions building the deluxe compound ready for his imminent arrival Equipped with a diesel power plant, 375,000 gallon concrete water tank , giant meat locker, 22 bedrooms and even a bomb shelter, the heavily guarded estate was home to a community of Hollywood fascists who hoped to ride out the war there.
Second World War bomb found in Marseille, south of France. Explosive was discovered when construction workers accidentally pierced it with their equipmentIt had been buried by Germans as a booby trap towards the end of the warAbout 1,000 people were told to leave an area around the port while it was being removed.Bomb was taken to military base to be safely detonated, officials said.
Google Earth during the Second World War: Amazing aerial images taken by the daring Allies which revealed Hitler's weapons. By David Wilkes Updated: 09:53 GMT, 23 November 2009 The detail is astonishing.
At first it looks like just another castle surrounded by tiny houses and neat fields. But zooming in on the courtyard one can see figures milling around. They are in fact Allied officers being held in the notorious German PoW camp of Colditz and the photograph is one from an archive of aerial photographs taken by airmen - sometimes flying as low as 50ft - during secret reconnaissance missions in World War II. Until now the pictures have been kept behind closed doors. Colditz Castle (circled) in Saxony, Germany on April 10, 1945, just three days before U.S. forces overran the area. Enlarge Craters surround a site at Peenemunde in Mecklenburg-Vorpommem, Germany on September 2, 1944, following an Allied bombing raid on the site where the V weapons were designed and tested.
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On December 7, 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it; the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War. In the six years between the invasion of Poland and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world was caught up in the most destructive war in history. Armed forces of more than seventeen million fought on the land, in the air, and on the sea. Titles on the 5 DVD-ROMs include: 1,365 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Files covering Adolf Eichmann. Adolf Hitler OSS - CIA Files - 1,721 pages of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) files related to Adolf Hitler.
Dwight D. Russian troops storm the Reichstag: Extraordinary images merge images of European city streets in war and peace. Published: 16:11 GMT, 18 March 2012 | Updated: 07:28 GMT, 19 March 2012 Storming the crumbling Reichstag, Soviet troops appear to attack the Berlin landmark as modern day tourists queue to enter the historic building. But these extraordinary images are the result of merging two pictures taken in the same location over 60 years apart. Amateur Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov, 42, collected old pictures of five European cities which suffered the heaviest fighting during World War Two. He spent 12 months painstakingly travelling to Paris, Leningrad (now St Petersburg), Berlin and Prague to re-create the 'today' shots before mixing the pictures together on a computer.
John Demjanjuk dies ahead of appeal against Nazi death camp guard conviction. Water Color Paintings by Adolf Hitler. Did Adolf Hitler miss his true calling? Should he have dedicated his life to painting instead of wreaking havoc across Europe? You be the judge. These are only a few of the Fuhrer‘s “masterpieces”, another set was auctioned at the end of April and managed to raise close to $150,000. Operation Cornflakes: How the Allies delivered propaganda to Nazi Germany - just in time for breakfast. By Damien Gayle Updated: 18:47 GMT, 6 March 2012 On January 5, 1945, as the Wehrmacht desperately fought to hold back waves of Allied troops from east and west, a mail train made its way to Linz, Austria. Suddenly, Allied fighter-bombers swooped, the attack derailing the train and leaving its cargo - mail bound for several Austrian towns - scattered over the area.