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NICHOLAS WINTON IS DEAD AT 106 SAVED CHILDREN FROM THE HOLOCAUST
He was showered with encomiums the Czech Republic's highest award, honorary citizenship of Prague, an American congressional resolution, letters of appreciation from President George W... READ MORE›
WHAT AMERICANS THOUGHT OF JEWISH REFUGEES ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR II
Two-thirds of Americans polled in January 1939 -- well after the events of Kristallnacht -- said they would not take in 10,000 German Jewish refugee children... READ MORE›
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR
In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›
HITLERS WORLD MAY NOT BE SO FAR AWAY
As Hitler himself knew, there was a political alternative to ecological panic and state destruction the pursuit of agricultural technology at home rather than Lebensraum abroad... READ MORE›
MAP THE RISK OF GENOCIDE AROUND THE WORLD
On Monday the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide launched a tool aimed at forecasting the risk of state-led mass killings... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM
Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›
WHY IS 1939 INVOKED IN SYRIAN REFUGEE DEBATE?
Presidential candidates and governors want to prevent 10,000 Syrian refugees from entering the US, prompting critics to drawing comparisons to the plight of Jews during World War 2... READ MORE›
70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA
Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›
FOREST OUTSIDE NAZI DEATH CAMP YIELDS DISTURBING FIND
During World War II, the Nazis were known to adjust Stutthof's size depending on their needs... READ MORE›
GERMANY STILL PAYING PENSIONS TO SPAIN'S NAZI VOLUNTEERS DURING SECOND WORLD WAR
The agreement to pay pensions to Blue Division veterans was made between Franco's government and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1962... READ MORE›
CZECH REPUBLIC CRITICIZED FOR MARKING MIGRANTS WITH NUMBERS
This incident shows how certain countries in Europe have been hit completely off guard, he said... READ MORE›
DESPITE CUTS US ARMY PREPARES FOR THREATS IN EUROPE
Laubenthal of the German Army, who recently became the first non-American appointed to serve as chief of staff of United States Army Europe... READ MORE›
TREASURE SEEKERS HUNT NAZI GOLD IN POLAND
WALBRZYCH Poland The gold diggers have arrived here in Lower Silesia... READ MORE›
'NAZI GOLD TRAIN' FOUND IN POLAND COULD BELONG TO RUSSIA AS COMPENSATION FOR WW2
Nazi 'gold train' Treasure could be claimed by Russia as compensation for Second World War... READ MORE›
IS THIS THE PHOTO HITLER WANTED TO HIDE FROM THE WORLD? BIZARRE IMAGE APPEARS TO SHOW NAZI LEADER DRESSED IN SWASTIKA-EMBLAZONED JAPANESE KIMONO
But this bizarre picture which has only recently been uncovered claims to show Adolf Hitler shunning his usual military attire for a floating Japanese kimono... READ MORE›
'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER
They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›
THE WORLD MIGHT BE ABOUT TO FIND OUT WHETHER A TRAIN FULL OF NAZI GOLD IS REALLY HIDDEN IN POLAND
The story of a Nazi-era train with valuable art, gems and gold that disappeared at the end of World War II in 1945 has circulated for decades... READ MORE›
WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR
Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›
NORMAN DYHRENFURTH 99 DIES LED FIRST US TEAM TO REACH TOP OF EVEREST
A film Mr. Dyhrenfurth made of the climb, Americans on Everest, narrated by Orson Welles, opened the National Geographic Society's 1965 television season... READ MORE›
HITLER SECRETLY MADE THE WEAPONS OF THE FUTURE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
First flown in 1944, the Horten Ho 229 was the world's premiere stealth aircraft, equipped with twin turbojet engines, two cannons, and R4M rockets... READ MORE›
LEADERS WARN OF RISING XENOPHOBIA ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY
Elderly Auschwitz survivors visited the former death camp to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, while leaders warned of widening divisions around the world... READ MORE›
V-J DAY: RARE COLOUR ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS PEOPLE CELEBRATING END OF WORLD WAR II
Video V-J Day rare colour archive footage shows people celebrating end of World War II... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS OF PAIRS OF SHOES OF NAZI PRISONERS DISCOVERED IN POLISH FOREST
Ms Drywa also speculated that the shoes may once have lain in the camp's rubbish tip... READ MORE›
KINDERTRANSPORT ORGANIZER NICHOLAS WINTON DIES AT 106
LONDON AP -- Nicholas Winton, a humanitarian who almost single-handedly saved more than 650 Jewish children from the Holocaust, earning himself the label Britain's Schindler, has died... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN SUGGESTS BRITAIN AND FRANCE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NAZI MARCH INTO EUROPE
Russian president Vladimir Putin has suggested that Britain and France were responsible for the Nazis march into Europe... READ MORE›
'IRISH' TOURIST TAKES ON ANGRY MOB OF TURKISH SHOPKEEPERS
An action-packed video of a man described as an 'Irish tourist' street-fighting a mob of angry shopkeepers has surfaced in Turkey... READ MORE›
THE REAL WORLD SMALL ARMS THAT INSPIRED THE WEAPONS OF 'STAR WARS'
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side Han Solo aboard the Millennium Falcon enroute to Alderaan... READ MORE›
NAZI HUNTERS AWARDED MEDALS OF HONOUR BY GERMANY
Jewish lawyer Serge Klarsfeld and his German-born wife Beate were awarded the Order of Merit at the German embassy in Paris... READ MORE›
WHEN WILL RUSSIA STOP TRYING TO RE-WRITE HISTORY?
Even though a quarter of a century has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian sensibilities have hardly changed... READ MORE›
MARCUS KLINGBERG, MASTER SOVIET SPY AGAINST ISRAEL, DIES AGED 97 IN PARIS
Israel sentenced Marcus Klingberg to 20 years in prison in 1983 for having passed information to Moscow on its biological weapons research... READ MORE›