Germany
Warfare in Germany, mainly during the final months of the war, when the allied Armies entered German territory, including the Allied bombing campaign over Germany.
The Day I Was Saved by a German Medic
Memories of Mike Timko (F Co, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division)
On December 2, 1944, Mike Timko was leading his squad near the German border and saw a German soldier standing by a pine tree…
Steinmeier Apologizes
Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured. Steinmeier spoke June 2nd in a ceremony marking the persecution of gays by the Hitler regime.Steinmeier claimed that more than 50,000 men were persecuted by the Nazis and were "tortured, sent to prisons and to concentration camps." Steinmeier went on to…
Good People Don’t Question (Anything about) the Holocaust
Apologies to Jeff Sessions for the paraphrase making the title above. Sessions, of course, said that good people don’t smoke marijuana, an obviously false statement whose near-infinite sweep invites comparison with the ubiquitous demonology in which everyone who grew up after World War II in any of the major countries of the West has been…
Germany Persecuting (Rich, American) Jew(s Again)
It’s come full circle. Legend, at least, has it that when a hyena has been mortally wounded, perhaps disemboweled, it uses its last ounces of strength to consume its own entrails. This is indeed the image on display today as the Holocaust-revenge industry impels Germany’s law enforcers to investigate rich American Jew Mark Zuckerberg, CEO…
The Night the Dams Burst
by David Irving, Focal Point Publications, England, 2011. 144pp. The first new book by British iconoclast David Irving since 2008’s Banged Up is The Night the Dams Burst. For those of us who have been waiting for the third installment of Churchill’s War or the long-promised biography of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, this release came as…
Adolf Hitler’s Armed Forces: A Triumph for Diversity?
Triumph of diversity: This is precisely what characterized the German Armed Forces of World War II by the year 1945. While this may be difficult for many historians to accept, it is nevertheless an accurate summation of what happened in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Even though the Germans initiated their war with a…
‘Copenhagen’: Uncertainty in Life and in Science
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. New York: Anchor, 2000. 132 pages. Daniel W. Michaels is a Columbia University graduate (Phi Beta Kappa, 1954) and a Fulbright exchange student to Germany (1957). Now retired after 40 years of service with the U.S. Department of Defense, he writes from his home in Washington, DC. Peter Frayn’s play Copenhagen,…
Peenemünde and Los Alamos: Two Studies
Abstract The Second World War produced two great and memorable scientific and technological teams: the German Peenemünde rocket team under the direction of Dr. Wernher von Braun, and the American Los Alamos atomic bomb team under the direction of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Taken together, the contributions of these teams created the post-war capability for…
Veteran American Journalist Provides Valuable Inside Look at Third Reich Germany
Theodore J. O'Keefe is book editor for the Institute for Historical Review, and an associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. He previously worked at the IHR from 1986 until 1994, serving as chief editor of this Journal from 1988 until April 1992. He also addressed the IHR Conferences of 1986, 1987, 1989,…
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