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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›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... 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›
CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT
Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... 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›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
SOVIET-ERA POET YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO DIES AGED 84
The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died of heart failure in the United States at the age of 84... 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›
IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›
NATIONALISTS & WAFFEN SS VETERANS MARCH IN RIGA TO HONOR FALLEN NAZI FELLOWS (VIDEO)
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the glorification of Nazi-era war crimes and sharply criticized both the march and the Latvian authorities... READ MORE›
NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA
I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE›
GERMANY CONFRONTS IN UNIQUE EXHIBIT ITS HOLOCAUST OF THE BULLETS
The exhibition, which opened late last month, confronts the mass murder of Jews and other minorities after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | THE RUSSIAN MILITARY IS BUILDING A MINI-REICHSTAG AT ITS AMUSEMENT PARK SO THAT KIDS HAVE 'A REAL BUILDING TO STORM'
MOSCOW -- What happens when you combine a military targeting the next generation of soldiers and the sacred memory of World War II in Russia?... READ MORE›
CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST AT COLD WAR LEVELS
Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... 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›
RUSSIA COMPLAINS OVER 'GAY BAR' ON PRESIDENT'S PLOT IN FINLAND
The archipelago lies between Finland and Sweden, but one uninhabited property is owned by the Russian presidency, having once been owned by a German-Finnish couple... 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›
WHY RUSSIA IS IN SYRIA
Russian President Vladimir Putin right and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shake hands in Moscow's Kremlin on Dec... READ MORE›
SOVIET LEADER GORBACHEV SAYS A NEW UNION COULD RISE AGAIN
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›