WIESBADEN, Germany — An SS captain who demanded that only fellow military officers judge him for the massacre of 89 French civilians instead found himself staring down the survivors of his own atrocity after Gen. George S. Patton personally intervened in a preliminary war crimes hearing here in July 1945. The confrontation, detailed in hearing … Read more
In the gray afternoon light of a secret airfield at Rechlin, some 70 miles north of Berlin, a Luftwaffe test pilot climbed into a captured American fighter that his own high command had already dismissed as a fat, clumsy “flying milk bottle” — and ninety minutes later he sat down at his desk and wrote … Read more
LUXEMBOURG — A 20-year-old private with no combat experience and no operational planning credentials halted a three-day planning effort by the Third Army in December 1944 when he raised his hand during a briefing and told General George S. Patton that the river crossing plan as presented would fail at the second crossing point. The … Read more
Wstrząsające kulisy wojny gangów na Górnym Śląsku ujrzały światło dzienne. Daniel D. , pseudonim „Romek”, jeden z liderów kibiców GKS-u Katowice, przeżył atak, w którym zadano mu blisko 46 ciosów maczetą. Do zdarzenia doszło 29 września 2017 roku na katowickim osiedlu Witosa. Sprawcy działali z zimną krwią i pełnym zdeterminowaniem. Materiał opublikowany na kanale Kryminopedia … Read more
American forces racing toward the Czech border in April 1945 discovered 43 emaciated U. S. prisoners of war locked inside a German barn, held captive since December in conditions so brutal that hardened combat veterans vomited at the sight and smell that greeted them when the doors finally swung open. The prisoners, survivors of the … Read more
Historians have long documented the crimes of the Third Reich, but a new line of inquiry is drawing intense attention by asking a deceptively simple question: what did Hermann Göring, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, actually do all day? The answer, according to a sweeping new examination of his daily routines, is … Read more
Gen. George S. Patton Jr. walked into a small interrogation room in occupied Germany in May 1945 and delivered a quiet, devastating rebuke to an SS colonel who had threatened an American officer’s family, according to accounts of the encounter that have circulated among veterans and historians of the Third Army. The confrontation, described in … Read more
LUXEMBOURG — A 20-year-old private with no combat experience and no formal training in operational planning brought a senior Third Army staff briefing to a halt in December 1944 by telling the room that the river crossing plan it had spent three days preparing would fail at its second crossing point, and Gen. George S. … Read more
German prisoners of war who crossed the Atlantic convinced they were headed for starvation and cruelty instead sat down to meals of fresh bread, roast meat, and real coffee — and the propaganda that had sustained them through years of war collapsed one plate at a time. The transformation, documented in camp records, prisoner letters, … Read more
American military authorities withheld all rations from two hundred German prisoners of war for three consecutive days in April 1945 after the captured soldiers of the Wehrmacht’s 116th Panzer Division refused to eat standard United States Army food, declaring it beneath their standards — a standoff that ended only when Lieutenant General George S. Patton … Read more