Disguised as a ceremonial visitor, the aging battleship Schleswig-Holstein entered the port of Danzig carrying hundreds of hidden troops. At dawn on September 1, 1939, her guns opened fire on the ...

The German gunner who fired the first shots of the Second World War claims the conflict began 55 minutes than Hitler claimed. Hermann Gerdau, now 100 years old, was a gunner aboard the Nazi battleship ...

German battleship Schleswig-Holstein fires at the Polish Army military outpost On Sept, 1, 1939, German battleship Schleswig-Holstein is shelling the Polish Army military outpost at Westerplatte, in ...

CHILLING photos showing the first shots of World War 2 being fired have been re-discovered in a fascinating album. The eerie images were collated by a seaman on the German battleship that shelled a ...

Madam, - I am researching the German Battleship Schleswig Holstein, which visited Ireland in 1938/39 and anchored off Dun Laoghaire… Madam, - I am researching the German Battleship Schleswig Holstein, ...

REMARKABLE photographs showing the first shots of the Second World War being fired have been found in a fascinating album. The chilling never-before-seen images were collated by a seaman on the German ...

IN APRIL 1937, two years before the outbreak of the second World War, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein sailed into Dublin… IN APRIL 1937, two years before the outbreak of the second World War, ...

The eerie images were collated by a seaman on the German battleship that shelled the Polish harbour at dawn in 1939 CHILLING photos showing the first shots of World War 2 being fired have been ...