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Digging for their lives: Russia's volunteer body hunters
Of the estimated 70 million people killed in World War Two, 26 million died on the Eastern front - and up to four million of them are still officially considered missing in action. But volunteers are now searching the former battlefields for the soldiers' remains, determined to give them a proper burial - and a name.
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Where the Nazis Hid Their Art: The Castle Behind ‘Monuments Men’
Built by a mad king and copied by Disney, Neuschwanstein Castle held Hitler’s stash of priceless artworks—until the true-life Monuments Men liberated the stolen collection.
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Panzer VIII Maus Photos and info
Short info on the mighty MAUS with photos
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King Tiger - best of the beasts
Artice on the King Tiger tank, short info and some photos.
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Inside job: the story of Witold Pileki, leader of the Secret Polish Army
Unknown to most of the world until the late '80s, Witold Pilecki was a leader of the Secret Polish Army. Dan Lewis on an all-round badass.
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Nazi commando turned Irish farmer
He was Hitler's favourite Nazi commando, famously rescuing Mussolini from an Italian hilltop fortress, and was known as "the most dangerous man in Europe". After World War Two, he landed in Argentina and became a bodyguard for Eva Perón, with whom he was rumoured to have had an affair.
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31 Rolls of Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed
Photographer Levi Bettweiser is the man behind the Rescued Film Project, an effort to find and rescue old and undeveloped rolls of film from the far corner...
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Brains Make Decisions the Way Alan Turing Cracked Codes
Despite the events depicted in The Imitation Game, Alan Turing did not invent the machine that cracked Germany’s codes during World War II—Poland did. But the brilliant mathematician did invent something never mentioned in the film: a mathematical tool for judging the reliability of information. His tool sped up the work of deciphering encoded messages using improved versions of the Polish machines.
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WWII battleship Musashi found, says Microsoft's Allen
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he has found the Imperial Navy’s biggest warship, lying on the seabed in the Philippines 70 years after U.S. forces sank it. Allen posted a photo on Twitter on Tuesday of what was described as the battleship Musashi’s rusty bow. The Chrysanthemum seal was recognizable. The American billionaire, who has also pursued space exploration, said his luxury yacht and exploration ship...
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Ex-Nazi 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' asks for 'forgiveness'
German former SS officer Oskar Groening, dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", asked for "forgiveness" over his role in mass murder at the Nazi death camp, as his trial began Tuesday."For me there's no question that I share moral guilt," the 93-year-old former Nazi told the judges, admitting that he knew about the gassing of Jews and other prisoners. "I ask for forgiveness," he said at the trial, which was attended by almost 70 Holocaust survivors and victims' relatives...
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Plea From the Past: Message on Door May Be From Couple Hiding During Holocaust
As he carefully unscrewed thin-wood panels off a client's bathroom door, contractor Jelle Kapitein said he was astonished when it revealed a heartrending message possibly left behind by a Jewish couple hiding during the Holocaust. Kapitein said he and a fellow worker found the messages two weeks ago while renovating a home in a Netherlands village. "What a surprise to find it," Kapitein told ABC News.
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6th August 1945 - American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
At 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world’s first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured.
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New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII
In August 1945, the U.S. dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, as Japan and the rest of the world prepare to mark seven decades since the end of World War II in the Pacific, new evidence has emerged about the Japanese military's own secret program to build a nuclear weapon. A retired professor at the state-run Kyoto University recently discovered a blueprint at the school's former Radioisotope Research lab, Japan's Sankei newspaper and other local media reported recently.
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Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions
From the pages of “Hellboy” and the pixilated corridors of “Wolfenstein 3D,” popular culture has wondered whether the Nazis, who had no shortage of well-documented kooky ideas, might have researched the possibility of reanimating the dead. Nazi zombies make for a grabber of a headline, but what real evidence is there that raising the dead was on the agenda for even the most outrageous among the Nazis?
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How Germany deals with Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'
Hitler's manifesto is banned in Germany, but will soon enter the public domain. Some want it read out loud, others would prefer to keep it in the university's "poison cabinet." DW explains what's next for "Mein Kampf."
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How a Nazi rocket could have put a Briton in space
In the summer of 1945, with the war in Europe over, Allied forces rushed to unravel the secrets of Nazi V2 rockets. These terror weapons, built by slave labourers, did little to affect the outcome of the war – but they had the potential to change the world. “There was an unseemly scramble to get hold of V2 missile technology,” says John Becklake, former head of engineering at London’s Science Museum. “The Americans, the Russians, the French and us.”
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Meet the shady ladies of WWII anti-VD posters
Meet the shady ladies of "penis propaganda": Anti-VD posters of World War II.
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Poles furious after Russia blames them for starting WWII
The Russian ambassador to Poland has sparked outrage for putting some of the blame for World War II on Poland, creating a new spat amid deepening tensions between the Slavic nations. Russian Ambassador Sergey Andreev on Friday described the Soviet's 1939 invasion of Poland as an act of self-defense, not aggression. The comment prompted Poland's Foreign Ministry to declare Saturday that the ambassador...
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Andrea Maurer: High Hitler
A look into the megalomaniac’s drug addiction.
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'Nazi gold train' investigators start surveying site in Poland
Engineers are set to start surveying a railway embankment in south-western Poland to establish how to dig out a “gold train” that is thought to have been buried there in the dying days of the Third Reich. The existence of a Nazi gold train, its whereabouts and its cargo – possibly stolen valuables and artworks – remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of the second world war.
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