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The German Teens Who Rebelled Against Hitler
From the time Adolf Hitler rose to power and prominence in his native Germany, his mission had been to indoctrinate the next generation of citizens to be fearless, cruel, and unwavering—all the qualities he needed to combat democracy. The Hitler Youth organization was developed to satisfy his goals. Enrollment was mandatory; members played sports and contributed to Nazi-approved artistic endeavors. Military training followed.
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The Fake British Radio Show That Helped Defeat the Nazis
By spreading fake news and sensational rumors, intelligence officials leveraged “psychological judo” against the Nazis in World War II. “Hier ist Gustav Siegfried Eins.” This is Gustav Siegfried Eins. “Es spricht der Chef.” The Chief is speaking. It was just before five in the evening on May 23, 1941, and the Chief's radio career had begun. What the Chief said over the next six minutes or so was something that Nazi troops listening to their shortwave radios had never heard before.
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The Holocaust: Who are the missing million?
Giselle Cycowicz (born Friedman) remembers her father, Wolf, as a warm, kind and religious man. "He was a scholar," she says, "he always had a book open, studying Talmud [compendium of Jewish law], but he was also a businessman and he looked after his family." Before the war, the Friedmans lived a happy, comfortable life in Khust, a Czechoslovak town with a large Jewish population on the fringes of Hungary. All that changed after 1939, when pro-Nazi Hungarian troops, and later Nazi Germany, invaded, and all the town's Jews were deported to Auschwitz.
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Poland wants to extradite a 98-year-old US man over Nazi war crimes
Prosecutors in Poland are formally seeking the extradition of a 98-year man living in Minnesota who has been accused of being the former head of an SS-led Nazi unit that slaughtered civilians and set fire to Polish villages. Reports said prosecutors from the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) in Warsaw, established in 1998 to prosecute war crimes, had forwarded their request for the extradition of Michael Karkoc to the Polish Embassy in Washington.
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Russia's embassy took a major swipe at France and Britain's WWII effort
As director Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk premiered last Thursday, Russia’s Embassy in the U.K. shared its thoughts on Britain and France’s contribution to the war effort over Twitter. Things escalated quickly. “Dunkirk was caused by the appeasement, opposed by (Winston) Churchill,” the embassy tweeted, referring to the British wartime prime minister. The “phony war was its last stage,” it added, referring to the first months following Britain and France’s declaration of war, where they failed to launch any major offensive to rescue their ally Poland from the German advance.
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The Forgotten Female Sniper Who Killed 75 Nazis
Read an excerpt from Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich's breathtaking new book, 'The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II.'
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'I've come to rescue you': My grandfather at Dunkirk - BBC News
Guy Farrer was one of the volunteers who went to rescue British and French troops from advancing Germans in World War Two.
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Lost WW2 warship USS Indianapolis found after 72 years
The World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine. The warship was discovered 18,000 feet (5.5km) beneath the surface. The Indianapolis was destroyed returning from its secret mission to deliver parts for the atomic bomb which was later used on Hiroshima.
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Hitler may have escaped Germany for South America, say CIA memos from the JFK files
It’s regarded as a historical fact that Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, when it became increasingly clear that Nazi Germany would fall to Allied forces. But a handful of recently-declassified CIA documents, unveiled with the highly anticipated JFK files last week, show that the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating whether Hitler escaped from Europe and was hiding in Colombia in 1954.
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Wreck of World War II submarine HMS Narwhal containing remains of 58 sailors discovered 77 years after it was sunk by the Luftwaffe - World War 2 Story
HMS Narwhal went down with all hands after it was bombed while on a mine-clearing mission. Now the researchers who found it want to contact the families of the men who died DIVERS have discovered the final resting place of 58 sailors who died 77 years ago during World War II when their submarine.
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Judge rules Picasso painting sold to escape Nazis can stay with New York Metropolitan
German business Paul Leffmann sold Picasso's "The Actor" in 1938 to escape Nazi Germany with his wife. His great-grand-niece has lost a lawsuit aimed at returning the piece to the family estate.
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'Monopoly of the holocaust:' Polish presidential adviser attacks Israel
An adviser to Poland's president has said he thinks Israel's negative reaction to a law criminalizing some statements about Poland's actions during World War II stemmed from a "feeling of shame at the passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust". Andrzej Zybertowicz, a Nicolaus Copernicus University sociology professor who also serves as a presidential adviser, called Israel's opposition to the new law "anti-Polish" and said it shows the Mideast country "clearly fighting to keep the monopoly on the Holocaust."
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Colorized photo of girl at Auschwitz strikes chord on social media
Czeslawa Kwoka was 14 when she was photographed at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp. Tens of thousands of social media users have reacted to recently restored and colorized versions of the original images.
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Wreck of sunken US WWII Juneau warship discovered
Wreckage from the USS Juneau -- a World War II cruiser sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1942 -- has been discovered by a team of explorers led by billionaire Paul Allen on the floor of the South Pacific off the coast of the Solomon Islands, the Microsoft co-founder announced on Monday.
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WW2 ship refloated by Sri Lanka navy
A British passenger ship that sank after it was bombed in a Japanese air strike in World War Two has been raised off the Sri Lanka coast after 75 years. The SS Sagaing, whose passengers and cargo were largely saved back in 1942, has been refloated with the help of a team of divers from Sri Lanka's navy. It had been resting about 35ft (10.7m) under the water at Trincomalee harbour. The salvage operation took several months and was carried out by Sri Lanka's Eastern Naval Command unit.
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'I'm a Holocaust Survivor—Trump's America Feels Like Germany Before Nazis Took Over'
Stephen B. Jacobs has a warning from the past for America today: It’s happening again. At 79 years old he is among the youngest of the living Holocaust survivors and was born six years after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
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Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds
Thirty-one percent of respondents believed that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and 41 percent didn’t know what Auschwitz was.
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The Forgotten Nazi History of ‘One-Pot Meals’
Officials believed the stews and soups had the power to unite Germany.
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The art hidden from Nazi bombs
Britain's National Gallery sent its collection of masterpieces into a Welsh slate mine during World War Two, writes Holly Williams.
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Fox News Violates Poland’s Holocaust Law With Reference to “Polish Death Camp”
FOX news could face legal action in Poland, and a potential fine of $100 million, for violating that nation’s new law on Holocaust memory on Tuesday by repeatedly referring to a Nazi concentration camp built during the wartime German occupation of Poland as a “Polish death camp.”
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