June 22, 1941. Nazi Germany launches Operation Barbarossa, unleashing war across the Soviet Union. Amid the chaos, a teenage Jewish boy—Solomon Perel—faces a choice that will define his survival.

Captured by the Wehrmacht, he hides his identity by posing as a Volksdeutscher, an ethnic German. Th...

10 July 1940. The Battle of Britain begins as the German Luftwaffe launches attacks against the United Kingdom, aiming to destroy the Royal Air Force and pave the way for invasion. Yet Britain refuses to yield.

But not everyone shares that resolve.

This is the story of Unity Mitford—a British a...

On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning the Second World War. Among the rising Wehrmacht officers is Gustav Fehn, a disciplined career soldier shaped by the First World War and the Reichswehr.

After campaigns in Poland and France, Fehn is sent to the Balkans, where he command...

Filip Müller, a Slovak Jew deported to Auschwitz in 1942, became one of the most important eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.

At just 20 years old, he was forced into the Sonderkommando—prisoners compelled by the SS to work in the crematoria and gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, Müller witn...

On 8 May 1945, Europe celebrates victory over Nazi Germany. But behind the scenes, a new fear is already taking shape.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, deeply distrustful of Joseph Stalin and Soviet ambitions in Eastern Europe, secretly orders the creation of a bold and dangerous plan—O...

On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing a war that will devastate Europe. Within weeks, Poland is crushed between German and Soviet forces, and a brutal occupation begins—marked by terror, mass executions, forced labour, and the systematic destruction of an entire society.

A...

15 March 1939. Prague falls under German occupation, and Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. While many Czech airmen flee abroad to continue the fight, one pilot takes a darker path.

Augustin Přeučil joins exile forces and later the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Britain — the United Kingdom’s air force, ...

22 June 1941. As Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, fear spreads not only across the front, but behind it. Soviet soldiers who survive battle often face interrogation, suspicion, and the threat of imprisonment in the Gulag system.

At the centre of this system stands Viktor Abakumov, one of J...

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, bringing mass terror to civilians. In Krasnodar, German forces and local collaborators carried out arrests, shootings, hangings, and gas van killings targeting Jews, Communists, and suspected resistance members.

After the Red Army retook th...

15 March 1939. Nazi Germany occupies Prague, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established under German control.

As repression intensifies, Reinhard Heydrich rises to power as Deputy Reich Protector, enforcing a regime built on fear, arrests, and executions. Known as the “Butcher of...

On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler rose to power—and medicine in Germany began to serve ideology.

Psychiatrist Paul Nitsche became one of the key figures behind the secret T4 euthanasia program, where doctors selected tens of thousands of patients for death under the guise of “treatment.” Using de...

1 September 1939 marked the start of a brutal occupation of Poland, as German and Soviet forces divided the country. Terror soon spread, targeting communities suspected of aiding the resistance.

Michniów became one such target. By 1943, the village supported Polish underground fighters and elite...

On 26 March 1945, U.S. troops liberated Hadamar—one of Nazi Germany’s secret killing centers—uncovering horrific conditions inside a psychiatric facility turned into a site of systematic murder. Among those arrested was Karl Willig, a deputy head nurse who played a direct role in the abuse and ki...

After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, repression spread rapidly—and those who spoke out risked everything.

Otto Neururer, an Austrian Catholic priest, was among the few who openly rejected Nazi racial ideology and defended the dignity of all people. His stance led to his arrest and d...

30 January 1933 marked the rise of Adolf Hitler—and the beginning of a system where medicine was twisted into a tool of ideology and terror. Among the doctors who served the regime was Alfred Trzebinski, a physician who became involved in the machinery of Nazi camps.

From Auschwitz to Majdanek a...

22 June 1941. Operation Barbarossa begins—the largest land invasion in history. Nazi Germany launches a massive assault on the Soviet Union, expecting a rapid victory. Instead, the campaign turns into a brutal war of attrition that reshapes World War II.

But what really happened on the Eastern F...