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an interview with William Edward Calbert a decorated war veteran who served in WWII. In his interview, Calbert discusses his difficulty coming back…

Всё для фронта! Всё для победы! [Everything for the Front! Everything for Victory!]

This Soviet World War II propaganda poster was created by El Lissitzky in 1941 and published in 1942. The Russian slogan “Всё для фронта! Всё для…

Growing up in Germany in the 1930’s, Gert Schmitz was drafted into the Hitler Youth, witnessed the start of World War II, and joined the Luftwaffe by…

Turing's Treatise on the Enigma - A Photographic Copy of a Paper Prepared in GCCS, written ca. 1939-1942

A declassified internal manual written by Alan Turing and other codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the war. It gives a detailed breakdown of how…

WAVE Demonstrating Bombe

A historical photograph showing a U.S. Navy WAVE demonstrating the operation of a Bombe machine, the electromechanical device used to decrypt Enigma…

A badly damaged shop in Eindhoven.

In liberated Eindhoven (Holland).
A badly damaged shop in Eindhoven.

Dolk's vishandel.
Herring processer shop after the bombing in 19 september…

Liberation of Stratumseind

Allie tank driving over het Stratumseind in Eindhoven

Aerial View of the Ruins of Rotterdam

This black-and-white aerial photograph shows the ruins of Rotterdam after the German bombing of the city in May 1940. The image documents the…

Der Bolschewismus: Grosse antibolschewistische Schau Karlsruhe

Nazi anti-communist propaganda poster advertising a large anti-Bolshevik exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany. The poster shows a large red spider…

The Influence of ULTRA in the Second World War

A transcript of a 1993 speech by Sir Harry Hinsley, a former codebreaker. He talks about how the British broke German codes at Bletchley Park, kept it…