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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...