The Auschwitz II camp in Birkenau was the largest in the Auschwitz complex. It was an extermination camp (Vernichtungslager), in which prisoners were killed in gas chambe...
The President of the Republic of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, the President of the Presidency of the SFRY, Stipe Mesić, and the Prime Minister of the Federal Government, Ante...
The major Nazi war criminals were sentenced on this day at the Nuremberg Trials. It is interesting that only 24 high-ranking Nazis were brought before the court. Three of...
When the news of the end of the war was announced, people in Baghdad were dancing in the streets and celebrating wildly. After nearly eight years of conflict, the Iran-Ir...
The Germans beat Belgian cities with powerful howitzers called Debela Berta. They conquered Belgium in about twenty days. In the conquered area, they established the so-c...
The French continued to keep a close eye on the situation in Gabon, and still keep one of their military bases there (Camp de Gaulle). On August 17, 1960, independence wa...
On this day in 1914 Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary in WW1. This put the multinational Central European empire at war with the world’s greatest colonial power. Th...
On this day in 1777, Marquis de La Fayette, a French nobleman, became a U.S. general in the War of Independence. The rank of general was awarded to him by the American Co...