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When Will Queer Bravery Become Part of the World War II Narrative?
There is still much work to be done to uncover queer narratives from WWII’s shadows and to add them into our history books.
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Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor is laid to rest, at last
A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II .
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How many monuments honor fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews? You’ll be shocked.
There are hundreds of statues and monuments around the world to people who abetted or took part in the murder of Jews and others during the Holocaust.
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US Army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl in 1945
The US Army has given a birthday cake to an Italian woman - to replace one that American soldiers stole from her as it cooled by a window 77 years ago. Meri Mion - who turns 90 on Friday - was 13 when her village of San Pietro, near Vicenza, saw fighting between US troops and German soldiers.
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‘Justice can triumph’: painting looted by Nazis returned to owners after 80 years
Piece by German artist Lovis Corinth was entrusted to Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels
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The hand-cranked calculator invented by a Nazi concentration camp prisoner
It’s no bigger than a drinking glass, and it fits easily in the palm of the hand. It resembles a pepper grinder—or perhaps a hand grenade.
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The last warrior of Africa’s ‘Forgotten Army’: Gambia and WWII
Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.
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German Nazi war crimes suspect, 96, who went on the run goes on trial
A 96-year-old German woman who was caught shortly after going on the run ahead of a court hearing last month on charges of committing war crimes during World War Two appeared before a judge on Tuesday in the northern town of Itzehoe.
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Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East England
The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in South East England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target. This is the sixth major excavation of a V2 site carried out by conflict archaeologists and brothers Colin and Sean Welch, who have spent more than 10 years investigating the sites of Nazi "vengeance weapons" launched at the British capital, they said.
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Transfer of Stasi records agency closes a chapter of East German history
The Stasi Records Agency is a legacy of the peaceful revolution in the GDR. Now its name is disappearing, but its spirit is to live on elsewhere.
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Christianity in Nazi Germany
It is estimated that at the beginning of the 20th century about 67% of the population in Germany were Protestants. However, the Catholics were strong in some areas such as in Bavaria. The Jews formed just under 1 per cent of the total population of Germany.
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Bell stolen by Nazis to be returned to Poland
A church bell that dates back to 1555 will be returned to its home in Poland, 77 years after it was plundered by the Nazis in World War Two. Parishioners at Slawiecice in southern Poland began searching for the church's old bell two years ago. They were in luck because, as the Münster diocese in Germany explained, the Nazis melted down some 80,000 bells to make weapons or ammunition.
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Astonishing story of teenage boy who killed a Nazi, escaped the Holocaust and led secret life in UK revealed by his son
When British man John Carr learned that his father was not a Polish Catholic who had settled in Britain after the war but was in fact a Jew who had escaped from the Łódź ghetto when he was just 13 years old, he had no idea that the shocking revelation would take him on a journey of discovery into the darkest corners of modern history.
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The Last Ones – best drama screenplay at the Los Angeles Film Awards
Another client of THGM Writing Services strikes gold. C.D. Peterson's WWII-era screenplay The Last Ones wins "Best Drama Screenplay" at the Los Angeles Film Awards (LAFA).It's always exciting wh
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Germany's World War I Debt Was So Crushing It Took 92 Years to Pay Off
After the Treaty of Versailles called for punishing reparations, economic collapse and another world war thwarted Germany's ability to pay.
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Sunken German World War Two warship found off Norway
The wreckage of a major German warship has been discovered off the coast of Norway some 80 years after it was sunk in a World War Two battle, Norwegian power grid operator Statnett and a maritime archaeologist said.
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The teenage Dutch girls who seduced and killed Nazis
During World War Two, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands turned three teenage girls into fierce resistance fighters. Truus Oversteegen, Freddie Oversteegen and Hannie Schaft have been remembered for their technique of luring collaborators into the forest for them to be executed.
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The Deadliest Marksman’s Cold, Brave Stand
The war was nearly over on March 6, 1940. The enemy, propagandized as an unstoppable fighting machine, was indeed overwhelming the army of the country they’d invaded. Six days later, the aggressors would finally force an armistice, and soon grab control of much of the land they’d coveted. It had taken longer than the two weeks they’d anticipated, but conditions were harsh, the defenders far more resolute than expected.
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Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II
No one had a well-defined plan to send microfilm specialists to war when Franklin Roosevelt agreed to established the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC). The agency initially struggled to gain traction. yet over the course of the war, the IDC developed an extensive operation to provide printed sources for intelligence purposes.
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Extinction Rebellion founder’s Holocaust remarks spark fury
A co-founder of Extinction Rebellion has sparked anger in Germany after referring to the Holocaust as “just another fuckery in human history”. Roger Hallam has been accused of downplaying the Nazis’ genocide of 6 million Jews by arguing in an interview that the significance of the Holocaust has been overplayed.
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