A medal awarded to Tommy the pigeon, one of the brave birds which inspired the 2005 animation film Valiant, has gone on sale ...

Nazi Sudetenland Campaign Medal ... The obverse is the same as the Anschluss and Memel medals, known as the 'Flower War' medals because German troops were greeted with floral tributes as opposed to ...

The bird’s bravery medal – awarded for its role in the destruction of a German arms site – has been listed for auction at £10 ...

Nazi Eastern Front Medal. Gunmetal grey centre with a frosted ... on three lines over a sword crossed with a laurel branch. At the top of the medal is a German steel helmet over a stick grenade ...

A recent edition of the Russian military’s official journal, Armeyskiy Sbornik, includes an article (archived online) that calls on the Defense Ministry to redesign its awards for assault troops and ...

Nazi rhetoric was virulently nationalist and anti-Semitic. The 'subversive' Jews were portrayed as responsible for all of Germany's ills ... who won four gold medals. However, when questioned about ...

A MEDAL awarded to a hero pigeon in World War Two is set to sell for £10,000 at auction. Tommy was supposed to be racing from ...

In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II ... said that after his father’s death he put the Purple Heart and other medals in a bank safe-deposit box but eventually lost ...

Women were important to the Nazis, however, the Nazis believed that ... of women in employment actually rose by 2.4 million. As the German economy grew, women were needed in the workplace.

Autarky - meaning that Germany must be economically self-sufficient and not dependent on goods imported from abroad. The Nazis created a terror-state whereby those living in Germany were too ...