🌸 Women at War
The Nazi Rocket Scientists Who Were Hiding in Argentina
After the war, more than 100 Nazi scientists — including several from the V-2 rocket program — escaped through ODESSA (a network of former SS officers) to Argentina, Spain, and Egypt. Perhaps the most remarkable escape w...
The Holocaust Survivor Who Built the World's First Computer
Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-Jewish mathematician who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States, where he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. He is the co-inventor of the Monte Carlo method (wit...
The Enigma Machine That Was Thrown Into a Lake — and Recovered
In May 1945, British sailors from HMS Otway recovered an Enigma machine from the Kleiner Walsertasee (Lake) in Austria, where it had been thrown by German soldiers to prevent capture. It was found at a depth of 77 meters...
The German Submarine That Surrendered — Twice
U-977, commanded by Captain Heinz Schäffer, is famous for surrendering to Argentine authorities in 1945, claiming it had been at sea when Germany surrendered. But the more interesting story is U-530, commanded by Otto We...