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espionage

The Wildly Misunderstood Photos of Hitler in Disguise

The legend of how a make-up artist reimagined the German dictator blossomed in the internet age.
Andy Wright August 17, 2016
Gellhorn and Hemingway in 1945.
literature

After Lovers Hemingway and Gellhorn Faced Off on D-Day, They Filed for Divorce

It turns out battling for journalistic scoops during wartime is not great for a marriage.
Atlas Obscura August 12, 2016
The Rose Kennedy Rose Garden
Boston, Massachusetts

Rose Kennedy Rose Garden

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.
nazis

Horrifying Nazi-Era Diaries of Himmler Found in Russia

A German newspaper says they've found the daily logs of the architect of the Holocaust.
Erik Shilling August 2, 2016
Steel pipelines were released from the 'Conundrum'
military history

How to Keep 500 Miles of Underwater Pipeline Secret

The little-known, highly complex fuel route that helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.
Atlas Obscura July 20, 2016
shipwrecks

Found: A WWII Tank Left Underwater Since a U-Boat Attack in 1945

It was hauled out of the water during a Russian military exercise.
Sarah Laskow July 20, 2016
castle
Parcz, Poland

Mazurolandia

A miniatures park with a model of Wolf's Lair as it looked during World War II.
Keswick, England

Derwent Pencil Museum

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.
atom bombs

New App Explores the Secret Development Location of the First Atomic Bombs

Take a virtual tour of Los Alamos Laboratory, home of the Manhattan Project.
Atlas Obscura June 15, 2016
Million Dollar Point
Luganville, Vanuatu

Million Dollar Point

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.
Members of World War II's 33nd Fighter Group attend a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy.
medicine

In the Early 1940s, the Red Cross Banned Black Blood Donors

Sometimes, the politics of who can give blood has less to do with medical limitations than cultural ones.
Cara Giaimo June 14, 2016
Portland, Maine

Battery Steele

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.
Italian POW Chapel
Franklin, Indiana

Camp Atterbury Prisoner of War Chapel

A chapel built by Italian POWs during World War II tells a forgotten tale of the war on the home front.
nazis

Found: A Rare Nazi Coding Machine, Hiding in a Garden Shed

A museum volunteer saw it on eBay.
Sarah Laskow May 31, 2016
Entrance to the tunnel
Cookley, England

Drakelow Tunnels

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.
submarines

They Found a WWII-Era Submarine With Bodies in It Off the Coast of Sardinia

The HMS P311 had vanished.
Erik Shilling May 25, 2016
Risiera di San Sabba
Trieste, Italy

Risiera di San Sabba

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.
Souda, Greece

Suda Bay War Cemetery

1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.