At a time when the threat of nuclear war is looming just around the corner, thanks to North Korea’s recent missile tests, California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has released 63 indelible videos of nuclear experiments conducted by the United States between 1945 and 1962. During the Cold War, both the US and the Soviet…
94-year-old Reinhold Hanning has recently gone on trial in the German city of Detmold for his role as a Nazi SS guard during World War II. Accused of aiding in the killing of at least 170,000 people, Hanning worked as a guard at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp between 1943-44, where he reportedly escorted Jewish prisoners…
Currently uninhabited, the island of Mamula is known for its chilling history as a World War II concentration camp. Located along the border between Montenegro and Croatia in the Adriatic Sea, the island is home to a now-abandoned fort that was once used by the Italian army to keep prisoners locked up. In what can…
Situated 100 feet (around 30 m) below the streets of Clapham, London is a now-defunct World War II bomb shelter that was, originally, built to provide protection to over 8,000 people during enemy air-raids. Today, more than 70 years after the end of the war, the space has been transformed into what is likely the…
An event that changed the entire face of world history and politics; brought several nations to the brink of economic collapse and took the lives of more than 50 million people, that is the Second World War. While a lot has been said, and studied, through the years since 1945, there are still countless other…
Previously, we had talked about some of the strangest weapons and biggest guns used during WWII. But the real 'quotient' of destruction brought on by the war really hits us when analysed from the perspective of human casualties. And, that is exactly what an animated data visualization by Neil Halloran, with his aptly named 'The…
The Warsaw Uprising of World War II was a united attempt on the part of the Polish Home Army, with little to no outside help, to rid Warsaw of the Nazi occupation. The nationwide uprising officially commenced on August 1, 1944, and lasted for 63 days, resulting in casualties of around 200,000 commoners and soldiers.…