D-Day Landings

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog

This week in history: on the 6th of June 1944, over 150,000 troops from 13 countries would land on the coast of Normandy, enacting ‘Operation Neptune’ on what has come to be known as ‘D-Day’. Airbone and amphibious landings were made,...

The Marshall Plan

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog

This week in history: on the 5th of June 1947, in a speech before students of Harvard University, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined his plan for the economic recovery of Western Europe post-World War II. In March 1948, the United States Congress...

Eichmann Trial for Holocaust Crimes 1961

by | Jun 4, 2016 | Blog

This week in history: In 1962, Adolf Eichmann was executed in Israel. One of the central architects of the ‘Final Solution’, in his capacity as head of the ‘Office of Jewish Affairs’ Eichmann would be directly responsible for the deportation...