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The nuclear bomb didn't beat Japan — Stalin did
The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject of emotional debate.Initially, few questioned President Truman’s decision to drop two atomic bombs, on...
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Hiroshima: The moment the US deployed the most powerful weapon known to man
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m local time, the world entered the atomic age.The Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress bomber, deployed the most powerful weapon then known to man over Hiroshima.The southern...
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Declassified photos show the US's final preparations for the nuclear attacks...
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, following up three days later with another bomb on Nagasaki.The bombs, known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," were loaded...
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An anti-Nazi film warning Americans not to fall for fascists is going viral...
A short, anti-Nazi film titled "Don't Be A Sucker" has reemerged after this past weekend's deadly white-supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.Produced by the US War Department in 1943 and...
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A tour of 3 Nazi death camps serves as an important and solemn reminder of...
This post first appeared in Welt am Sonntag and has been translated into English.“Just follow the train tracks, that’s the best way to find concentration camps,” I’m told by a local with a bitter smile...
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A 93-year-old World War II veteran returned a fallen Japanese soldier's flag...
Deep within the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, in a small farming village hidden away from the fast-paced city life, the family of a fallen Japanese soldier eagerly waited for the return of a precious...
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Researchers have found the wreckage of the WWII-era USS Indianapolis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Civilian researchers say they have located the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, the World War II heavy cruiser that played a critical role in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima before...
View ArticleThe wreckage of a WWII-era US warship that the Navy called the worst disaster...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led a civilian research team that discovered the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis, a WWII-era warship sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1945.Join the conversation about this...
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Hitler's Nazi army was kicked out of Paris 73 years ago Friday
"That was the greatest and finest moment of my life," one of the world's most brutal tyrants reportedly said after touring the newly Nazi-occupied French capital.The day after Germany signed an...
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Germany banned Nazi symbols at a neo-Nazi march in Berlin — here's what happened
BERLIN — If you didn't already know what you were looking at, the massive march on the outskirts of Berlin Saturday may have been so indecipherable as to seem entirely self-defeating.Hundreds of...
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Germany city to evacuate over 60,000 people to defuse British World War II bomb
BERLIN (AP) — City authorities in Frankfurt plan to evacuate more than 60,000 people from their homes on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction work.The 1.8-ton bomb of a type...
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The first 'battle' of World War II was a Nazi war crime
World War II started with a brutal Nazi war crime.On September 1, 1939, German soldiers began their invasion of Poland, triggering the outbreak of World War II. The shelling of a Polish garrison at...
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78 years ago, the first battle of World War II featured one of the world's...
On August 23, 1939, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed a nonaggression pact between their two countries.Contained within the...
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11 books the Army's top officer recommends to help understand World War II
September 1 marks the 78th anniversary of the start of World War II, when the Nazi Wehrmacht stormed into Poland.France and Britain declared war on Germany two days later, and the conflagration would...
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There's an 'urgent' appeal to stop this iconic piece of British landscape...
The National Trust has launched an "urgent" appeal to save Britain's White Cliffs of Dover from being sold off to private developers.The iconic cliffs' owner is selling 700,000 square metres (0.27...
View ArticleThe London bar where you crack codes to get cocktails just had a revamp – and...
The Bletchley, London's spy-themed cocktail bar, just had a revamp introducing new missions and games.At the bar, you dress up as a codebreaker from Bletchley Park, the historical site where British...
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Here's how Germany's and Britain's modern-day tanks match up
During World War II, the British and Germans had some epic tank battles — perhaps the most notable at the African battle of El Alamein.Germany had some of the finest tanks, but British designs weren’t...
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Big wars have powerful and long-lasting effects on a country's foreign policy
How to explain — and, if possible, predict — a great power’s foreign policy is a perennial question for scholars of international politics.Although a lot of scholarly writing in international relations...
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One of the only remaining World War II Navajo code talkers has died at 94
A Navajo Code Talker who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II has died in New Mexico, Navajo Nation officials said.David Patterson Sr. died Sunday in Rio Rancho at age 94...
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It's been 77 years since the Battle of Britain — here are 14 photos of the...
By mid-1940, Nazi Germany had swept over Western Europe, conquering France and holding territory from the English Channel north to Norway.Late that summer, Hitler and the German Luftwaffe turned their...
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