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89-Year-Old Describes The Surreal Moment She Hid In An Ice Cream Parlor When...
A Florida woman can recall American bombing raids over Japan in World War II more vividly than most people, even the pilots themselves — because she was on the ground.After we ran a story about the...
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German Store Apologizes After Selling Mugs Imprinted With Hitler's Face
A German furniture store mistakenly sold 175 mugs imprinted with Adolf Hitler's face, according to BBC.The 1.99-euro ceramic cups featured a Nazi-era stamp that contained the WWII dictator's profile....
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South Korea And Japan To Hold Rare Official Talks On 'Comfort Women'
SEOUL (Reuters) - Senior South Korean and Japanese officials will meet this week to discuss Japan's wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on...
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Why Justin Bieber's Instagram From Japan Offended Over A Billion People
Justin Bieber has apologized for and removed an Instagram photo of his visit to a controversial Japanese World War II shrine after the image outraged Chinese and South Korean fans.The Yasukuni Shrine...
View ArticleInteractive Map Shows The Names And Photos Of Holocaust Survivors Across The...
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli Defense Forces created an interactive map to show the current locations of Holocaust survivors all around the world. Using the organization's...
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Nazi Germany Surrendered 69 Years Ago Today — Here Is General Eisenhower's...
At the time of the surrender on May 7, 1945, Nazi forces had all but disintegrated. Hitler had committed suicide and Soviet forces had already taken Berlin, which resulted in 70,000 Nazi soldiers...
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Ominous Photos Of Russia's Most Militaristic Victory Day Parade In Years
Russia marked the Soviet Union's role in defeating Nazi Germany by holding one of the largest Victory Day military parades in Moscow in years today.President Vladimir Putin presided over the parade,...
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92-Year-Old New Zealand Veteran Shares Another Side To World War II In A...
A 92-year-old veteran of World War II took to a Reddit AMA, with the encouragement of his grandson, to share his experiences. The serviceman, answering questions under the handle Psych_Tim, served in...
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Stranded In Open Ocean For 5 Days — The Survivor Of The Worst US Navy...
The sinking of the USS Indianapolis by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II was the single greatest loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. Out of a crew of 1,196 sailors, 300...
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The British Stockbroker Who Saved 669 Children From The Nazis Just Turned 105
On Dec. 3, 1938, a British stockbroker made the impromptu decision to cancel his skiing vacation and join his friend Martin Blake in Prague, who had desperately asked for his help. The decision changed...
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The Mysterious Origins Of The Swastika
I found this 1917 advertisement for swastika jewelry while browsing through the NY Public Library Digital Gallery. The text reads in part:To the wearer of swastika will come from the four winds of...
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This Hungarian-American Mathematician May Have Been Smarter Than Einstein
Some would claim the smartest person of the 20th century worked down the hall from Albert Einstein at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.John von Neumann, born in Budapest in 1903 and immigrated...
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This Chart Shows The Astounding Devastation Of World War II
The truly enormous scope of World War II is almost impossible to understand in hindsight. The war devastated vast swathes of Europe, East Asia, the Pacific, and North Africa, while its influence...
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D-Day Was A Success Because Allied Meteorologists Saw An Opening That The...
German military leaders expected an Allied invasion on the Channel coast in late May, 1944, when there was high tide, a full moon, good visibility, and little wind. When it did not come, and when the...
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These Crossword Clues Nearly Gave Away The D-Day Invasion
Seventy years ago, the British Intelligence agency MI5 flew into a panic when agents noticed that key code names from the top secret D-Day operation were appearing in The Daily Telegraph's crossword...
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The Last Of The Navajo Indians Who Helped Win World War II Has Died
The last of 29 Navajo Americans who developed a code that helped Allied forces win the second World War died in New Mexico on Wednesday at the age of 93, local media reported.Family members confirmed...
View ArticleCBC Is Tweeting A Blow-By-Blow Account Of D-Day, And It's Incredible
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is tweeting a fascinating blow-by-blow account of the D-Day invasion that took place 70 years ago tomorrow. The D-Day invasion, code named Operation...
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The Last Of The Original Navajo Code Talkers Has Died — Here's Their...
The last of the original Navajo code talkers, Chester Nez, died at 93 on June 4. The code talkers used a code based on the Navajo language as a way of quickly and accurately transmitting information in...
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Here's A Nazi Propaganda Video Saying The D-Day Invasion Failed
The success of the Allied D-Day Invasion caught the Nazis off guard and threw their war strategy to the dogs. Suddenly, Nazi Germany found itself fighting a two front war against foes that were making...
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D-DAY: Here's How The Allies Began To Win The Second World War 70 Years Ago...
Every war has events where the tide changes, turning points where the conflict's endgame comes into focus.That moment for the Second World War's European theater was June 6, 1944 — the day Allied...
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