Author: Joshua Robinson

The Hindenburg was a German airship that caught fire and was destroyed on May 6, 1937, while attempting to dock at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, USA. Of the 97 people on board, there were 35 fatalities, and one worker on the ground also died, making a total of 36 deaths. The disaster…

The Schienenzeppelin was an experimental German railcar, designed and built by engineer Franz Kruckenberg in 1929. Resembling a Zeppelin airship on rails, it was powered by a large rear-facing propeller and a BMW aircraft engine (V12), reaching a record-setting speed of 143 mph (230 km/h) in 1931. Clip #1 source: DW

Fallschirmjäger were the elite German paratrooper divisions from the Luftwaffe (aerial military branch), first formed in 1938, and known for pioneering large-scale airborne operations in WWII. They fought in famous battles across Europe—like Crete, Normandy, and Italy—and were highly trained, well-armed, and used as elite infantry, especially after airborne drops stopped in 1944 due to…

When the Germans entered Lviv (then Lwów) in June 1941, many locals, especially Ukrainian nationalists/some church leaders welcomed them as liberators from Soviet rule, hoping Germany would support Ukrainian independence after suffering the Holodomor genocide. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1920 to 1933 by bolshevik/communist jews—seizing food, punishing resistance, and…