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War 2020 - first special LP release this year

In January we will have a selection of the best December finds, but this is a specialty for fans of mainly WWII finds. So we have a winner!

3.1.2014 He found a war medal, gave it to his relatives

Paul Nunn made the relatives of one of the soldiers who fought in the First World War very happy. He and his wife, Kirs, used a metal detector to find a lost medal that the veteran had been awarded.

25. 12. 2014

25.12.2014 Archival wines in a Nazi bunker

Six years ago, a pair of searchers from Poland found archival wine in a Nazi bunker. They were exploring the cramped maze of Third Reich tunnels near the town of Swinoujscie. It's believed that no one has set foot there in the last 70 years.

20. 12. 1944

20.12.1944 Siege of Bastogne begins

An important success was scored by the American army at Bastogne in Belgium. They were able to break through the German defenses, even while battling disease and frostbite. The weather helped, and it calmed down on December 26, 1944.

11. 12. 1941

11.12. 1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the USA

On December 8, 1941, Congress declared war on Japan at Roosevelt's suggestion. On December 11, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States in accordance with the provisions of the 1940 Pact of the Three Powers. This created a major global conflict.

Divers found the Enigma in a fishing net

German divers from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea, came across a surprising thing. From the water they pulled out a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi army during World War II.

7. 12. 1941

7.12.1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

At dawn on December 7, 1941, the first wave of Japanese aircraft took off from aircraft carriers 400 miles north of Hawaii. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

6. 12. 1916

6.12.1916 Masaryk sentenced to death

Kramář, Rašín and some others were sentenced to death for treason. A year after them, Masaryk himself was sentenced in absentia. He was granted amnesty in 1917.

5. 12. 1941

5.12.1941 Soviet counter-offensive began

Soviet troops under the command of Zhukov launch a counter-offensive on 5 December 1941, pushing the Germans back eighty kilometres and saving the capital.

4. 12. 1916

4.12.1916 Jaromír Nechanský was born

Major Jaromír Nechanský was one of the most interesting personalities of the anti-Nazi and anti-communist resistance. He was a member of the Platinum-Pewter paratroop. After World War II, he was condemned and executed.

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