You know, over the years on the Tonight Show, I’ve had just about everybody sit across from me. Presidents, movie stars, people who could juggle chainsaws while reciting Shakespeare. Very impressive, very dangerous booking decision, by the way. But, there are nights just a few where something happens that you don’t plan,…
12 March 1938. German troops cross the Austrian border without resistance, and within hours swastika flags hang from public buildings across Vienna. Crowds gather in the city centre, cheering, saluting, and welcoming the union with Nazi Germany. Loudspeakers broadcast triumphant speeches, church bells ring, and the atmosphere is filled with excitement, fear, and uncertainty at…
At 11:32 on February 9th, 1944, First Lieutenant Bob Hoover pulled his Spitfire Mark 5 into a climbing turn over the Mediterranean, watching four Folk Wolf 190s diving out of the sun toward his flight of four American fighters. 22 years old, 58 combat missions, one of the best pilots in the 52nd Fighter…
Before his death, Dean Martin revealed which actresses paid with their bodies. When the stage lights dim and the martini glasses begin to overflow in the smoky casinos of Las Vegas, the truth finally comes out. We like to think of Hollywood as a dream factory, a place where talent rises to…
In a sealed concrete room beneath the streets of Kala, a man is forced to pick up a sledgehammer. In front of him kneels another prisoner. The guards give him a simple choice. Kill the man in front of you or you will be next. This was not a scene from a horror film. This…
The history that we were all taught growing up is wrong. My name is Scott Walter and I’m a forensic geologist. There’s a hidden history that nobody knows about. There are pyramids, chambers, tombs, inscriptions. They’re all over the world. We’re going to investigate these artifacts and sites, and we’re going to…
At 09:15 on March 18th, 1945, First Lieutenant Jack Treadwell pressed his face into frozen German soil near Nether Warsbach, watching eight of his men get cut down on a barren hillside 200 yd ahead. 25 years old, four years in the army, battlefield commission at Anzio. The Sig Freed line stretched 630 km across…
144 American transport planes flew straight into the guns of their own fleet. It was the night of July 11th, 1943. The pilots of the 52nd Troop Carrier Wing had been told the route was clear. They were carrying 2,000 paratroopers of the 54th Parachute Infantry Regiment over the coast of Sicily, reinforcements for the…
The history that we were all taughtgrowing up is wrong. My name is Scott Walter and I’m a forensic geologist. There’s a hidden history that nobody knows about. There are pyramids, chambers, tombs, inscriptions. They’re all over the world. We’re going to investigate these artifacts and sites and we’re going to get…
April 1941, Zagreb. As the Axis powers carve up Yugoslavia, a new fascist state rises under the banner of the fanatical Ustaša organization, pledging loyalty to Adolf Hitler and promising a purified Croatia. In the months that follow, Jasenovac – a complex of 5 subcamps emerges along the Sava River, a place that will earn…
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