--Second World War

Italian Soldiers During WW2 Were Not Cowards

'Volkssturm': Nazi Germany's Last Line Of Defence


American Forces In India And China During WW2: A Pictorial


American Propaganda During WW2: Superman Cartoon Films


American Propaganda During WW2: "Why We Fight" Films By Frank Capra


British Propaganda Paintings During WW2


Brutal Germans During WW2: Part 1


Indian Nationalist Subhash Chandra Bose Joined Hands With Nazi Germany


Images Of The Wehrmacht During WW2: Part 1


Images Of the Wehrmacht During WW2: Part 4


Images: WEHRMACHT: Part 5 


American Propaganda Posters During WW2


Soviet (Russian) Propaganda Posters During WW2


Britain Turned Xenophobic In 1940


Germany Did Occupy Britain During WW2! The Channel Islands At least!


German Soldiers (Wehrmacht) All Color Pictures


The British Prepare For War In 1940


Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942: A Waste Of Lives Or was It Worth It?


German Soldiers: Rare Pictures From 1941


French Posters During WW2


German Conquest Of France: A Picture Album


Rare Striking Pictures From WW2


Winston Churchill: Some Rare Images


Dramatic moments WW2: Surrender of Poland 1939


Fall of Austria: Soviet (Russians) in Vienna:WW2


France during the Second World War


Liberation of Holland. 1944


Some dramatic images from WW2


Little known statistics about the Second World War


France Falls: 1940


Germans suffered after defeat in 1945


BENITO MUSSOLINI: He asked too much from Italy


Fascist Italy tries to occupy Abyssinia, 1935


NAZI GERMANY: The SS (Schutzstaffel)


Amazing Second World War Pictures: Part 1


Amazing Second World War Pictures: Part 2


Amazing Second World War Pictures: Part 3


Amazing Second World War pictures: Part 4


Brutal Second World War: THE USTASHIS


Stalingrad, Atlantic Wall


Causes Of WW2



Second World War In Brief


Some amazing facts about the Second World War


Some incredible WAR facts!


RAPE OF GERMAN WOMEN: After Germany lost the Second World War


Did Hitler have an atom bomb?


Did Nazi Germany explode a nuclear bomb in its last days?


Some interesting WW2 facts


Little Known WW2 Facts


Share this PostPin ThisShare on TumblrShare on Google PlusEmail This

Popular Articles On This Site

PicturesHistory.blogspot.com

PicturesHistory.blogspot.com

Quotes about war....

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."
--Napoleon Hill

"We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide."
--Havelock Ellis

'Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
--Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
--George McGovern

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
--Joseph Stalin

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
--Voltaire, War

In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- Aeschylus

"The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery."
--Clarence Darrow, Resist Not Evil

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
--Adolf Hitler

"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
--George Orwell

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
--Bertrand Russell

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
--Francis Meehan

Snippets From History

German Soldiers in Russia: Part 1

Hubert Menzel was a major in the General Operations Department of the OKH (the Oberkommando des Heers, the German Army headquarters), and for him the idea of invading the Soviet Union in 1941 had the smack of cold, clear logic to it: 'We knew that in two years' time, that is by the end of 1942, beginning of 1943, the English would be ready, the Americans would be ready, the Russians would be ready too, and then we would have to deal with all three of them at the same time.... We had to try to remove the greatest threat from the East.... At the time it seemed possible.'
==========

Battle for Berlin, 1945

'We started to fire at the masses,' says one former German machine gunner. 'They weren't human beings for us. It was a wall of attacking beasts who were trying to kill us. You yourself were no longer human.'

==========

Berlin after it fell to the Russians, 1945

"Vladlen Anchishkin, a Soviet battery commander on the 1st Ukrainian Front, sums up the horror of the whole event, when he tells how he took personal revenge on German soldiers: 'I can admit it now, I was in such a state, I was in such a frenzy. I said, 'Bring them here for an interrogation' and I had a knife, and I cut him. I cut a lot of them. I thought, 'You wanted to kill me, now it's your turn.'
Read More

========

Dramatic Pictures: Battle For Stalingrad
"...Effective command no longer possible... further defense senseless. Collapse inevitable. Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops."
General Paulus' radio message to Hitler on January 24, 1943

"...Capitulation is impossible. The 6th Army will do its historic duty at Stalingrad until the last man, the last bullet..."

Hitler's response to General Friedrich Paulus' request to withdraw from the city

READ MORE>>>

Points To Ponder....

The fall of France was shocking. It reduced France to virtually a non-player in the Second World War. The efforts of Charles de Gualle were more symbolic than material. But the martial instincts of the French must never be doubted. Under Napoleon they were a formidable military power. The French definitely have more iron in their blood then say, the Italians [I do not mean it in a derogatory sense. War never makes sense]

============

Bias Of Western Historians

Soviet resistance made possible a successful Allied invasion of France, and ensured the final Allied victory over Germany.

It can hardly be called mere 'resistance'! If it hadn't been for the Russians, Hitler would have made mincemeat of British forces in Africa and landed on British shores in no time. Hitler attacked Russia first because it had more land and resources than Britain. It is as simple as that.

READ MORE>>>>
Eastern Front: Bias Of Western Historians