by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 5, 2025 | Articles
In the summer of 1940, Europe stood on the edge of the abyss. The Nazi Blitzkrieg had swept across the continent, and Britain found itself alone, an island of resistance against the seemingly unstoppable tide of totalitarianism. It was in that moment of existential...
by Italo Magno Jau | Oct 3, 2025 | Articles
At dawn on 1 September 1939, the world held its breath. Poland, a nation reborn from the ashes of the First World War, became the epicentre of a storm that would engulf the globe. The German invasion, followed by the treacherous Soviet aggression, was not merely the...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 30, 2025 | Articles
Amid the darkness that fell over Europe with the rise of Nazism, when indifference and fear paralysed entire nations, a Brazilian woman stood out as a beacon of courage and humanity. Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, known as “the Angel of Hamburg”, defied...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 27, 2025 | Articles
With the breaking of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact during the Second World War, Operation Barbarossa began, the codename for the largest military campaign in history in terms of troops mobilised and casualties suffered. In January 1942 the Soviet photographer Dmitri...
by Italo Magno Jau | Sep 25, 2025 | Articles
In the heart of France, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane remains an open wound in the landscape and in Europe’s collective memory. On 10 June 1944, only four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, a detachment of the 1st Battalion of the 4th Panzergrenadier...
