Film Comment

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Director: Robert Schwentke Country/Distributor: Germany/Poland/Portugal/France, Music Box Films Opening: July 27 The Second World War is winding down and rural Germany is lousy with deserters, among them Willi Herold (Max Hubacher), a baby-faced priv

All About History

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Author Colin Rushton Publisher Summersdale Publishers Price £8.99 Released Out now When soldier Arthur Dodd returned to England following VE Day on 8 May 1945, he was carrying a heavy burden that extended beyond the hardships of serving in World Wa

Aviation History

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by Vladimir Kotelnikov, Casemate Publishers, 2018, $89.85. More than 18,000 Allied aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union during World War II, but up until now comparatively little has been written about their operational use and ultimate fates. This

Finweek - English

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barely a week into 2020 and it’s very difficult to feel optimistic about the new year – let alone the next decade ahead. And it’s not just South Africa that isn’t off to a great start. As fires rage in Australia (let’s not forget the devastation in t

World War II

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RESCUE BOARD: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe By Rebecca Erbelding. 384 pp. Doubleday, 2018. $30. FROM APRIL 1933—when Hitler’s government issued its first anti-Jewish law—until early 1944, the United States governmen

BBC History Magazine

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In your interesting Why Did the Allies Win WWII? debate (May), a better question to pose might have been: “Why did Germany lose WWII?” Here, as in most cases, the outcome was determined by which side had the strongest economic and logistical capacity

The Guardian

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As the world prepares to mark the anniversary, a former British soldier and a prisoner he freed recall the Nazi concentration camp

NPR

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U.S. soldiers liberated the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nazi Germany 75 years ago this month. Sol Gringlas' family usually joins the 100-year-old on the day. The pandemic has changed that.

Military History

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Early in World War II the U.S. Army recognized its need for skilled linguists to interrogate captured enemy troops or conduct covert operations in Axis-controlled areas. Recruits included both Americans possessing German, Italian and Japanese languag

History of War

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Writer: Mark Roseman Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: £20 Released: 26 September 2019 In the wake of defeat in the First World War Germany experienced an explosion of radical and revolutionary political movements looking to promote their ow

All About History

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One of the last people to be a government delegate for Poland, he was one of the founders of the Polish Underground and was a member of the Union for Armed Struggle. After the war he fled to the USA, where he wrote several books on the history of the

HELLO magazine

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As the world remembers the horrors of the Holocaust, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the Duchess of Cambridge has shared two powerful portraits of survivors and their grandchildren. Kate, who took the photographs of Yvonne Bernstein and S

History of War

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An SS officer and qualified doctor, Mengele was the chief camp physician of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) from 1943. He became notorious for conducting genetic research on human subjects with no regard for their welfare or safety. He experimented on twins

All About History

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Author Joanna Foat Publisher The History Press Price £14.99 Released Out now Wartime deeds are not always appreciated when the fighting is over. One such group to have suffered the fate of being almost forgotten was the World War II Women’s Timber

World War II

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THE NAZIS MURDERED nearly 1.5 million Jews—a quarter of the number slain during the entire Holocaust—in a 100-day rampage of killing in Poland in the summer and fall of 1942, new research finds. This “kill rate” is higher than that of the 1994 Rwanda

The Christian Science Monitor

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As World War II dawned, the US and Europe nervously watched a continent rich in resources and also riddled with pockets of Nazi sympathies.

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The Arolsen Archives has completed the online digitisation of its records, creating the most comprehensive archive of victims of the Holocaust and other forms of Nazi persecution available – and it can be searched for free. The project, in partnershi

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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During World War II, with puppetry the only permissible form of political satire in the Soviet Union, Ekaterina Bekleshova (1898–1977) created this soft-sculpture caricature of Winston Churchill, now in the collection of Moscow’s Central Museum of th

People

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DURING THE HOLOCAUST HIS FAMILY HELPED HIDE HER FROM THE NAZIS. BUT IT TOOK 73 YEARS FOR CHARLOTTE ADELMAN AND ALAIN QUATREVILLE TO FIND EACH OTHER AGAIN

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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This week marks 75 years since Soviet troops stormed the gates of hell. Hell was near a Polish town called Oswiecim. Hell was a place called Auschwitz. Seven and a half decades later, the murder factory has all but passed from living memory, been swa

The Railway Magazine

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GWR has named the first of six trains after Second World War heroes. A ceremony was held at London Paddington on March 6 in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war. GWR set No. 800314 was named Od

World War II

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CLARENCE SMOYER, 96, thought he was headed to the Pentagon on September 18 to sign copies of Spearhead, the 2019 book that recounts his experiences as a World War II tank gunner. Instead, he was met by an Army Honor Guard at the World War II Memorial

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and

World War II

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THE LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE in Florida was eager to share the good news on Facebook: they were the proud new owners of a 10-week-old bloodhound that would be trained to locate missing persons, find fugitives, and dig up evidence. Just one proble

Chicago magazine

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■ For most of his life, longtime Naperville resident Isaac Levendel had no idea what had happened to his mother, Sarah, after she disappeared from where they were living in rural France in 1944, when he was 7. They were both registered Jews under the

Who Do You Think You Are?

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The Allied liberation of the concentration camps 75 years ago caused shockwaves that still reverberate today. Sadly the coronavirus pandemic curtailed many public events to remember the millions of victims who were imprisoned, exploited and murdered

History of War

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As the winter of 1944 tightened its icy grip across Europe, Nazi Germany found itself surrounded by powerful enemies intent on seizing Berlin and crushing the Third Reich once and for all. Yet, despite its precarious situation, Germany was far from d

History of War

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HIGHLY ENGAGING ACCOUNT OF THE DRAMATIC AIR WAR OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF GERMAN FIGHTER PILOTS Writer: Patrick G. Eriksson Publisher: Amberley Price: £20 Released: 15 October 2019 Alarmstart South And Final Defeat is the f

History Revealed

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British soldiers carry a decoy inflatable tank during a training exercise on Salisbury Plain. Decoy tanks like these were used in World War II, for instance before the D-Day landings: the inflatables could trick an enemy into believing that their opp

World War II

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THE VICTORY PROGRAM GOT IT WRONG when it said July 1, 1943, was the earliest date that the United States could launch offensive operations. American troops beat this prediction by nearly a year, invading Guadalcanal in August 1942 and North Africa in