Connection: A Story of Remembrance

As a vanquished foe, Germany is punished severely by the Allies at the Treaty of Versailles and undergoes a radical political shift which only intensifies Hitler's anger and his resolve to make Germany powerful again.

Adolf Hitler was a sinister genius in how he organized and directed the Nazi movement, from the 25 commandments of his National Socialists to the Nazi flag to his shrewd understanding of the German people.

In an effort to appeal to the wider German population Hitler employs Karl Ernst Haushofer to assist him with his public image, including public speaking training.

Hitler sees opportunity amid the Great Depression and endless cycles of paralyzing democratic elections in Germany, and goes to the industrialists and military establishment to create a political base. This consolidation leads in turn to the supp ...

Germany rebounds from economic depression through huge public works projects which have the ultimate goal of prepping the country for military expansion and ultimately subjugation of the Slavs.

The Munich Agreement of 1938 greatly benefitted Germany and Hitler in particular as he was planning and preparing for European domination

As his freezing and hungry troops had to retreat from the outskirts of Moscow Hitler instructed his propaganda chief Goebbels to paint a far more positive picture of the German situation on the Eastern Front.

Under the instructions of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis sought to make the liquidation of Soviet Jews as efficient and quick as possible as they advanced eastward, which lead to their infamous practice of "sardine-packing" - the execution of wave- ...

By autumn of 1944 Hitler realizes that he and Nazi Germany need one more stunning and unlikely victory, so he starts planning for an assault on the overextended Allies to the West, hoping to split them up and seize the crucial supply port of Antwerp.

As the Red Army encroaches and the Americans pummel them form the air, Hitler issues his Nero decree, whereby he orders that Germany destroy all its infrastructure so as not to be of any use to the Allies, and to the remaining Germans.

There was no aspect of life in Germany that was not affected in some way by the Nazi apparatus and ideology. The Allies came to realize that there was no way to completely eradicate the influence of Nazism and that they couldn't exclude former Na ...

With tanks and bullets intended for a different type of enemy, Marines in Iraq discover new challenges while fighting insurgents in an urban setting.

Operation Phantom Fury was meant to be a 48 hour battle but insurgents, armed with IEDs and a stockpile of grenades resist from the moment Americans set foot in Falluja.

Marines in Hue develop effective techniques on the fly for clearing out rooms and buildings.

Vastly outnumbered, Marines must cross the Perfume River under heavy fire in order to attempt to breach the ancient Citadel where thousands of NVA soldiers lie in wait.

While scouting a battlefield in Khe Sanh, soldiers get lucky as a well-placed artillery shell refuses to explode.