Unsolved Mysteries of World War II

The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941 shocked the world and drew the United States into the war. Did British Intelligence and Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, know in advance of the Japanese attack and fail to warn the Americans?

Throughout Hitler's reign only one powerful group of men remained immune to his infamous charm. Paradoxically, these were the men most necessary to Hitler's dreams of conquest. They were the High Command of the German Army. Again and again during the war Hitler's own general would plot to remove and later kill their Fuhrer.

In May 1945 the Third Reich came to an end in the cataclysmic battles of Berlin. By the time the dust had settled on the ruined city, thousands of people had simply disappeared, never to be seen again. One such man amongst the thousands missing or lost from the city was Germany's Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.

What are the origins of this dreaded symbol of the Nazi Party? How did the Swastika change from a Buddhist sign of good fortune to the Nazi emblem which would strike terror into the hearts of millions.

Where did these powerful formations come from? How long had this secret army existed and had Stalin refused to commit them even when Hitler's Armies were at the gates of Moscow?