German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code. ~humanities.history Video 23:05 8 votes
Divers find remains of Finnish WWII plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard ~humanities.history Article 1277 words 18 votes
New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago ~humanities.history Article 459 words 7 votes
Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK ~humanities.history Video 39:41 8 votes
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
The first US Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians ~humanities.history Article 2240 words 8 votes
WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel ~humanities.history Video 26:59 4 votes
Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway ~humanities.history Video 34:48 13 votes
Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II ~humanities.history Article 463 words 10 votes
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway ~humanities.history Article 403 words 13 votes
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 12 votes
Gilleleje remembers one of the greatest collective acts of resistance of World War II – its role in the flight and escape of over 7,000 Danish Jews ~humanities.history Article 1474 words 9 votes
The race to catch the last Nazis ~humanities.history Article 6716 words, published Sep 12 2023 15 votes
Letter showing Pope Pius XII had detailed information from German Jesuit about Nazi crimes revealed ~humanities.history Article 792 words 33 votes
An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust ~humanities.history Article 1219 words, published Aug 29 2023 30 votes
Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad ~humanities.history Article 9071 words 6 votes
Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time ~humanities.history Article 3382 words, published Aug 8 2023 7 votes
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped ~humanities.history Video 21:02 7 votes
Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor ~humanities.history Video 16:09, published Oct 29 2019 8 votes
Why 95% of Denmark's Jews survived the Holocaust ~humanities.history Video 11:05, published May 17 2023 6 votes
Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral? ~humanities.history Video 3:23, published Apr 25 2022 4 votes
These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists ~humanities.history Article 860 words, published Feb 17 2023 10 votes
Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway ~humanities.history Video 11:42, published Dec 25 2022 4 votes
Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored ~humanities.history Article 29 words 5 votes
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2? ~humanities.history Video 12:56 5 votes
According to a woman tasked with checking for poison in Adolf Hitler's meals, Hitler was sympathetic to vegetarianism ~humanities.history Article 467 words 3 votes
Battle of Drøbak Sound, 1940 - "Either I will be decorated or court martialed. Fire!" ~humanities.history Video 7:46 6 votes
The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time ~humanities.history Video 58:25, published Apr 22 2021 4 votes
The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis ~humanities.history Article 7684 words, published Aug 14 2017 8 votes