The Dark Side of the "Liberation of Europe"

US soldiers who fought in World War II have commonly been depicted as honorable citizen warriors from the "Greatest Generation."

But a new book uncovers the dark side of some GIs in liberated France, where robbing, raping and whoring were rife.  The liberators made a lot of noise and drank too much. They raced around in their jeeps, fought in the streets and stole. But the worst thing was their obsession with French women. They wanted sex -- some for free, some for money and some by force.

1941: Ukrainians Welcome Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS Troops as Soviet Atrocities Come to Light (VIDEO)

Ukrainians greet German troops as liberators from Soviet tyranny.

People in Lvov or Lemberg in western Ukraine welcome the soldiers as they enter the city. Mass killings come to light. Just before fleeing the city, Soviet police used axes, knives and firearms to kill many Ukrainians in the GPU police headquarters. Bodies of victims are carried from the GPU building and laid out for identification. Enraged civilians round up and take revenge on those who had supported the Soviets.

VIDEO: 70th Anniversary of the Dresden Holocaust

Please share this video around to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the greatest single act of terror during World War II.

More people died in the fire bombing of Dresden on February 13th to 14th, 1945 than in the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Holocaust (noun) – “Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.” Instead of viewing this mass murder of innocents as a tragedy, many jews, anti-fascists, and other cultural marxists consider this holocaust to be a good thing.

VIDEO: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Film review, in color, of the life of an outstanding World War II military commander. Rommel is shown inspecting defense fortifications along the Atlantic coast, with his troops in North Africa, and with his family. With striking musical accompaniment

Europe’s Campaign Against Bolshevism: A World War II German Perspective (VIDEO)

As this German wartime newsreel reports, young men across Europe volunteer for military service in the pan-European armed front against Soviet Bolshevism.

Scenes from Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Spain. German troops liberate Latvia’s capital, Riga. Corpses of Latvians killed by Bolsheviks are shown. Jews are rounded up and forced to work. German forces break through the “Stalin line” fortifications. In the tremendous “double battle” of Bialystok-Minsk, more than 300,000 Soviet prisoners are captured. German forces take Minsk, capital of Belarus, which the Soviets set on fire before retreating.

Adolf Hitler Postcard Found in WWI Project

A previously unknown postcard sent by Adolf Hitler when he was a soldier in World War I has been uncovered in a European history project.

Hitler's postcard, sent in 1916 when he was recovering from a war wound, was found in Munich, Germany. Oxford University is providing expert advice to the Europeana 1914-1918 project which runs history roadshows. When the postcard was identified, the university's Dr Stuart Lee said he "felt a shudder run through me".

VIDEO: Skorzeny’s SS Commando Liberates Mussolini

Contemporary French newsreel report on the sensational World War II rescue of Italian leader Benito Mussolini by a German commando team.

In a daring raid on Sept. 12, 1943, a glider-borne team led by the colorful SS officer Otto Skorzeny liberated the fascist leader, who was being held prisoner on Mount Gran Sasso in Abruzzo. Skorzeny introduced himself to Mussolini with the words: “Duce, the Fuhrer sent me! You’re free!" Mussolini embraced Skorzeny and said, "I knew my friend Adolf wouldn’t desert me."

When Hitler’s Favorite Waffen-SS Commando Leader Became an Irish Farmer

He was Hitler's favourite commando, famously rescuing Mussolini from an Italian hilltop fortress, and was known as "the most dangerous man in Europe".

After World War Two, he landed in Argentina and became a bodyguard for Eva Perón, with whom he was rumoured to have had an affair. So when Otto Skorzeny arrived in Ireland in 1959, having bought a rural farmhouse in County Kildare, it caused much intrigue. At 6ft 4in and 18 stone, known as 'scarface' due to a distinctive scar on his left cheek, Skorzeny was an easily recognisable figure as he popped into the local post office.

British WW2 Veteran Recalls How General Rommel Saved His Life

He was viewed as Hitler’s finest general, admired even by the Allies for his skills as a military leader.

But to one captured British soldier, Erwin Rommel was the man who saved his life – and gave him beer and cigarettes. Captain Roy Wooldridge, from the Royal Engineers, has told how he was introduced to the ‘Desert Fox’ after being taken prisoner in France. He had been caught during a covert night-time reconnaissance mission ahead of the D-Day landings. Without uniform or identification due to the secrecy of the operation, he was treated as a spy and told he would be shot.

Everything People Believed about Hitler's Intentions Toward Britain was a Myth Created by Churchill

It's good that the UK Government is going to pardon the thousands of Army deserters who enlisted in the British forces during World War Two.

Of course, no army can allow desertion; however, these men were not court-martialled, but were subject to a blanket ban on state employment that deprived them of their constitutional right to due process. The vast majority of them deserted from June 1941 onward, when the theoretical possibility of a German invasion had all but vanished.

Adolf Hitler's "Lost Fleet" Found in Black Sea

The final resting place of three German U-boats, nicknamed "Hitler's lost fleet",

has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea. The submarines had been carried 2,000 miles overland from Germany to attack Soviet shipping during the Second World War, but were scuttled as the war neared its end. Now, more than 60 years on, explorers have located the flotilla of three submarines off the coast of Turkey.

Wolf Rüdiger Hess: The Life and Death of My Father, Rudolf Hess

When my father flew to Scotland on May 10, 1941, I was three-and-a-half years old.

As a result, I have only very few personal memories of him in freedom. One of them is a memory of him pulling me out of the garden pond. On another occasion, when I was screaming because a bat had somehow gotten into the house, I can still recall his comforting voice as he carried it to the window and released it into the night.

New Footage Released of NSDAP Youth Camp in America

Here you have some fantastic footage, released to the public for the first time by the US National Archives, of a 1937 Hitler Youth summer camp in the USA. It was filmed in Windham, New York, in the summer of 1937.

David Lane's Last Interview with Blood and Honour England (2006)

David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American white nationalist leader.

A founding member of The Order, he died while serving a 190-year prison sentence in the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lane stated that his beliefs can be best summarized by a slogan called the 14 words, a term that he coined: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." He also coined a second 14-word slogan: "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."

Adolf Hitler's Secret Indian Army: The Waffen-SS Indian Legion

In the closing stages of WWII, as Allied forces were driving Hitler's now demoralised forces from France, three senior German officers defected.

The information they gave British intelligence was considered so sensitive that in 1945 it was locked away, not due to be released until the year 2021. Now the BBC's Document programme has been given special access to this secret file. It reveals how thousands of Indian soldiers who had joined Britain in the fight against fascism swapped their oaths to the British king for others to Adolf Hitler - an astonishing tale of loyalty, despair and betrayal that threatened to rock British rule in India, known as the Raj.