Articles

Winston Churchill

In a time when Great Britain was going through its darkest period, there was only one man who could lead ...

United Kingdom - Great Britain

Frederick Browning

Frederick Browning was born on December 20, 1896, and joined the officer training corps during his education at Eton. During ...

United Kingdom - Great Britain

John Coke

The British Major John S.A. Coke, nicknamed ‘Corgi’, was born on September 7, 1911 and was killed at the age ...

United Kingdom - Great Britain

Patrick Playfair

Introduction Some of the Royal Air Force commanders from the Second World War are well known because of the command they ...

United Kingdom - Great Britain

Donald Stevenson

Air Vice-Marshal Donald Stevenson was nicknamed ‘Butcher’ by the crews of No.2 Group of RAF Bomber Command. During his command ...

United Kingdom - Great Britain

King Leopold III: hero or traitor?

Pre-war tensions Leopold III took the constitutional oath and became the fourth King of the Belgians on the 23rd of February ...

Belgium - Belgium

Léon Degrelle

Léon Degrelle was born June 15th 1906, in Bouillon in the province of Luxemburg near the Belgian-French border. Between ...

Belgium - Belgium

Pierre Sweerts

The Belgian Pierre Marie Ernest Sweerts, although sentenced to death in his own country, was initially not arrested after the ...

Belgium - Belgium

Woldemar Klingelhöfer

Introduction From 15 September 1947 to 10 April 1948, 24 men stood trial in Nuremberg for the crimes they committed as ...

Germany - K till O

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen

Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen was born October 10, 1895 in Gut Barzdorf in Schlesien (Silesia), at the time German territory. ...

Germany - P till T

Werner Schwerdtfeger

This is a short biography of a man whose life was filled with enough experiences, friendships, and drama to serve ...

Germany - P till T

Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth was one of the most important executors of the Nazi euthanasia program and Aktion Reinhard, the extermination of ...

Germany - U till Z

Erwin von Witzleben

Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben was born December 4, 1881 in Breslau – at the time the capital ...

Germany - U till Z

Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs

Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glon was born November 12, 1881 in ...

Germany - U till Z

Helmut Otto Ludwig Weidling

'On April 30, 1945, the Führer has committed suicide, letting down all those who had sworn the oath of loyalty ...

Germany - U till Z