Second World War

BBC documentary about the Hiroshima atomic bomb available for download.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:46:52 GMT

Two new videos have been put available for download. For now, the multimedia elements for download are:

20 videos;
7 audio;
327 images;
7 wallpapers.

News: Britain finally pays off WWII debt.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:46:03 GMT

The United Kingdom pays back today the final installment of loans taken out at the end of the World War Two used for the reconstruction of the country. According to the Treasury minister, the United States and Canada will receive, respectively, $83.25 million and $22.7 million. These payments are the last ones of a sequence of refunds done since 1950. click for more details

Details about the movie La Vita è Bella.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:50:21 GMT

Some information about the movie 'La Vita è Bella' (or Life is Beautiful).

List of movies about the war.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:45:18 GMT

World War II has been subject for many war movies in the last decades. Who don't know 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' or the the comedy masterpiece 'The Great Dictator' from Chaplin? Some of the movies inside the presented list have more details and to see them you have to click on the title. If you know a movie or a documentary that is not within the list, contact me (http://www.worldwar-two.net/contacto/) or create a post in forum.

Separated Foruns (English and Portuguese)

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:25:14 GMT

For now on, there are two foruns: a Portuguese one and an English one. Portuguese version Page: http://pt.worldwar-two.net Forum: http://pt.worldwar-two.net/forum/ English version Page: http://www.worldwar-two.net Forum: http://www.worldwar-two.net/forum/

Portuguese version changed to the pt.worldwar-two.net subdomain.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:54:33 +0100

For now on, the portuguese version of the website will be accessible through http://pt.worldwar-two.net. From the http://www.worldwar-two.net and from http://pt.worldwar-two.net you can switch version using the flags existent, for instance, in the header of the website.

Event: USA Declaration of War on Japan.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:04:26 GMT

Know one of the most famous speeches of President Roosevelt requesting the declaration of war on Japan. Three days later, the declaration is done.

Comment the articles.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:05:57 +0100

From now on you can comment the articles of the website. For that, you only have to be registered and authenticated.

New Poll

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:04:04 +0100

The following poll was published on the website:

What's your favorite warship?

Carrier;
Battleship;
Cruiser;
Destroyer;
Torpedo Boat;
Submarine.

To vote, you have to register in the website. Nothing more easy...click here.

Mined Camps article improved and translated.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:42:48 GMT

Know the impact of the minefields during the World War Two. All in a renewed and translated article.

News: Iwo Jima photographer died, aged 94.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:54:14 +0100

Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who took the iconic WWII image of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, died Sunday (August 20, 2006) at the age of 94 in San Francisco of natural causes, according to his daughter. click for more details

News: Gunter Grass admits to serving in Hitler''s Waffen SS.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:04:44 +0100

Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass faces critics after admitting he was part of Nazi Germany's notorious Waffen SS during World War II. click for more details

News: Japan holds memorial service to mark end of WWII.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:52:59 +0100

Japan held yesterday a government-sponsored memorial service to mark the 61st anniversary of the end to World War II. click for more details

Barrage Balloons article improved and translated.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:34:48 +0100

Know one of the most important used weapons during the Battle of Britain and in other battles. All in a renewed and translated article.

News: Nazi aircraft carrier located.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 4 Aug 2006 22:19:56 +0100

A search for oil in the Baltic Sea has turned up the wreck of the German World War 2 aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, whose whereabouts had been a mystery since it was sunk by the Soviet Navy after the war. click for more details

New multimedia elements for download.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:52:27 +0100

Multimedia elements for download:

18 videos;
7 audio;
315 images;
7 wallpapers.

History Channel - June

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:17:07 +0100

It was updated the schedule for the June documentaries that will be exhibited on the History Channel.

New multimedia elements for download.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 19 May 2006 22:31:43 +0100

Multimedia elements for download:

13 videos;
7 audio;
315 images;
5 wallpapers.

News: Nazi Archive opens to researchers.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Wed, 17 May 2006 21:40:03 +0100

The world's largest archive of Nazi German documents will be opened to historians for the first time, after an agreement reached by the 11 countries that control it. click for more details

Multimedia section updated

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:23:29 +0100

Some of the sounds have the correspondent transcription.

Weapons: Molotov Cocktail

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 14 May 2006 13:44:52 +0100

Know one of the most primitive and most used weapons during the WW2.

History Channel - May

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 2 May 2006 15:41:29 +0100

It was updated the schedule for the May documentaries that will be exhibited on the History Channel.

New albuns in the images gallery.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 2 May 2006 15:41:26 +0100

It were introduced new image albuns. For instance, you can see all the Adolf Hitler photos existent in the website.

Nuremberg defendants article improved and translated.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:44:53 +0100

Know the defendants of the Nuremberg Trials, their sentences and other important facts related with the trial of the XX century. All in a renewed and translated article.

News: Germany agrees to open Nazi archive.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:07:48 +0100

Germany will clear the way for the opening of records on 17 million Jews and enslaved labourers persecuted and murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. click for more details

News: Missing Japanese WWII Soldier Alive in Ukraine.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:37:13 +0100

A former Japanese soldier last seen by his family when he went off to fight in World War II has resurfaced in Ukraine and is returning home to see his relatives after more than 60 years. click for more details

Quotations related with the World War 2.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:11:38 +0100

As the image of the day, the first page of the website shows also the events of the day. Now, you can also see some quotations such as «Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.», by Churchill.

News: Letters show different side of Anne Frank

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:46:26 +0100

Anne Frank - her life in letters is about Anne Frank as a correspondent. We know that Anne Frank wrote her diary in the form of letters. Less well known is that, prior to the diary, she often wrote postcards and letters to family and friends.click for more details

New Poll

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:09:52 +0100

The following poll was published on the website:

Which country had the best weapons?

Germany;
USA;
France;
Japan;
United Kingdom;
USSR.

To vote, you have to register in the website. Nothing more easy...click here.

Proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:26:34 +0100

Know the declaration which defined the UN's view on the human rights guaranteed to all people, setting out basic rights and freedoms to which all women and men are entitled.

News: Hitler plotter's widow dies.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:25:47 +0100

Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, the widow of the man who tried to kill Hitler with a briefcase bomb, has died at the age of 92.click for more details

History Channel - April

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 2 Apr 2006 14:55:14 +0100

It was updated the schedule for the April documentaries that will be exhibited on the History Channel.

News: Poland seeks name change for Auschwitz

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:33:24 +0100

Poland wants the official name of Auschwitz-Birkenau changed to remind the world that the death camp was built and run by Nazi Germany. click for more details

The last mission over Japan

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:36:24 +0100

Few people know that after the atomic bombings over Japan existed other attack over that country. The atomic attacks weren't the only reason for the surrender of Japan. The new article explains...

New terms in the glossary

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:58:50 GMT

Do you know all the terms regarding the WW2? Are you sure?

New Events

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:47:54 GMT

The timeline was updated with more than 90 new events.This new events are from 1935 to 1941. More in the future...

News: Frozen WWII airman buried.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:33:48 GMT

Leo Mustonen's frozen body was discovered last October by climbers in California's Sierra Nevada mountains (on the Darwin Glacier) and it was recently identified through DNA tests at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. click for more details

Introduction and Countries sections improved and translated.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:23:47 GMT

The introduction and countries sections have been improved and also translated to english.

News: Short film covers delay to end of WW2.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:44:53 GMT

A new 16 minute film, The Messenger, is the story of the 16 year-old messenger, Thomas E. Jones, who delayed bringing a telegram announcing Japan's surrender at the end of the Second World War to President Truman. click for more details

News: USA honours Churchill.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:57:21 GMT

Winston Churchill has been named an honorary Virginian, an American distinction shared by only three others like Margaret Thatcher and Marquis de Lafayette. click for more details

News: The Spitfire marks 70 years.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:26:36 GMT

The Supermarine Spitfire, a plane that became an emblem for the British and Canadian air forces in the Second World War, marked its 70th anniversary Sunday (March 5, 2006). click for more details

New multimedia elements

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:30:29 GMT

Download videos, audios and wallpapers related with WW2.

History Channel - March

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:32:36 GMT

It was updated the schedule for the March documentaries that will be exhibited on the History Channel.

News: Historic videos on Google.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:21:29 GMT

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has announced an exiting program to make its collection of historic movies, documentaries and other films available to the public via Google Video. click for more details

News: WW2 bomb found on Florida beach.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:45:45 GMT

Construction crews using heavy machinery to perform a post-hurricane beach clean-up unearthed a World War 2-era bomb on February 14 (Tuesday) morning. click for more details

News: «Butcher of Genoa» dies.

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:01:27 GMT

Friedrich Engel, a former Nazi SS officer known as the Butcher of Genoa, has died at the age of 97. click for more details

New Events

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:57:30 GMT

The timeline was updated with more events.This new events are from 1919 to 1935. More in the future...

New Poll

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:33:28 GMT

The following poll was published on the website:

Why didn't the Allies do more to stop the Holocaust?

Political reasons;
Military reasons;
They agreed;
They didn't care;
They didn't know.

To vote, you have to register in the website. Nothing more easy...click here.

New Awards

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:07:20 GMT

The website was presented with the Netprobe Gold and Platinum awards.
Congratulations! Your site is amazing! It not only contains great content, but is extremely well designed. We would like to present you with the Netprobe Gold AND Platinum awards.

History Channel - February

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:02:43 GMT

It was updated the schedule for the February documentaries that will be exhibited on the History Channel.

New Version

admin@worldwar-two.net (João Ramos) — Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:15:21 GMT

The webpage has been completely renewed. The updates are the following:

New address (http://www.worldwar-two.net);
Two differente languages;
Store where you can buy books, DVD's, games, etc.;
New forum;
and much more.