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Letters Written On Hitler’s Stationery

2:30PM November 2, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

The Washington Post has highlighted some of the pieces at a new exhibit in the CIA‘s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The most striking one is this one: a letter written by Lieutenant Richard Helms on Hitler’s stationery. More »

Science

World War 2 Bombing Runs Changed The Weather Over England

8:00AM July 11, 2011 | Jack Loftus

According to scientists, climate change is real. Humans have, are and will continue to affect this planet’s weather with their CO2 shenanigans. This includes WW2, where there was a demonstrable human-created invention that had a measurable impact on the weather. More »

Photoshop Time Portals To World War II

3:00PM July 30, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov took some old photographs from World War II and combined them with new perspective-matching photos. The result are a series of time portals that help us contextualise the war into our current reality. More »

The Nazis Made A Fine Solar Backpack

11:24PM September 18, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Do I even need to ask why anyone would want a German army WW2 backpack? More »