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Soviet Jewish WWII veterans say Israelis don’t know their story
In this photo made Friday, April 12, 2013, Soviet Jewish World War Two veteran Tchudnovsky Itzhak poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Tchudnovsky joined the...
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Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke returns to Mauthuasen birthplace
A woman who was born at Mauthausen concentration camp is returning to the site on the 68th anniversary of its liberation. Eva Clarke, 68, grew up in Wales after her widowed mother remarried and the...
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New German plaque for downed Dambuster bomber
A German historian has installed a new plaque commemorating one of the Dambuster bombers after locating the spot where it crashed. Of all the commemorations marking this month’s 70th anniversary of...
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LOTHAR: Letting out the light on V-E Day
The dark days of World War II ended 68 years ago Tuesday, May 7, 2013 U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag … more > Surrenders, like modern wars, are not what...
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the Battle of Aubers
9 May 1915 The Battle of Aubers Inception Throughout the winter of 1914-15 the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) continued offensive operations against Russia. Although they achieved no...
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Fluoride Vote Gets Its Own Hitler Video
And so, in accordance with Godwin’s Law, it has come to this. The furor over Measure 26-151 has resulted in a YouTube parody video in which Adolf Hitler rails against the destruction of his plan to...
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Final book in World War II trilogy grim, depressing — and a terrific read
http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2013/05/10/12/20/Ux6t6.Em.56.jpeg” width=”316″ height=”473″ border=”0″ /> The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945. Rick Atkinson....
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The American Iliad
he United States had a pretty cushy world war before the middle of 1944—though, heaven knows, to those at the sharp end it had not seemed so. The country went un-bombed after Pearl Harbor and was not...
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World War 2 in Normandy. Omaha June 6 1944 by Echi Aaberg
World War 2 in Normandy. Omaha June 6 1944 by Echi Aaberg. Today, enjoy these photos of Omaha (Normandy), full of history and memories. We should remember that we are lucky people living in a more...
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World War II veteran Ted Rosen has a heart of gold … believe it!
Rosen, who survived three exploding grenades during the war, gave recent $645 prize from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! to victims of Boston Marathon bombing World War II veteran Ted Rosen, seen with wife...
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Former Middlesbrough schoolboy reveals World War Two secret
James ‘Alan’ Gilman stumbled across a Messerschmitt like the one above in 1940 James Gilman and 30 other youngsters from Teesside were taken off to the Cleveland Hills in September/October 1940 for a...
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First Days of Operation Barbarossa (pictures)
First days of invasion into Russia seemed to be a piece of cake for Nazi German army. According to the plans of the German chief commanders the whole deal with Russia would take just a few months....
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Gauck and Germany commemorate soldiers who tried to kill Hitler
German President Joachim Gauck has honored soldiers who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. Meanwhile, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has announced that Germany still has Nazis to hunt. About 500 German...
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Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza for Historians: Explorers find dozens of WWI...
Der Spiegel reports: British archaeologists recently discovered more than 40 German U-boats sunk during World War I off the coast of England. Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets...
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Auschwitz survivor to sue German drama for calling camp ‘Polish’
The Telegraph reports: A Polish survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz has threatened to sue the German producers of a controversial wartime drama for labelling both the Auschwitz and Majdanek...
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Hamburg museum to examine RAF raids that killed many thousands of civilians
GERMANY is to open its first museum dedicated to bomber offensives of World War II that will lay bare how the Allies attacked civilian areas. Only now, with survivors of the bombing raids well into...
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Operation Cornflakes: How the Allies went postal in the secret propaganda war...
On January 5, 1945, as the Wehrmacht desperately fought to hold back waves of Allied troops from east and west, a mail train made its way to Linz, Austria. Suddenly, Allied fighter-bombers swooped, the...
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BERT Trautmann was a German WWII paratrooper, a POW who escaped & was...
BERT Trautmann was a German WWII paratrooper, a POW who escaped and was recaptured, and he won an FA Cup while suffering from a broken neck. He died yesterday aged 89 after an extraordinary life....
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Guernsey’s German WWII markings uncovered
Prisoners working on a restoration project in Guernsey have discovered German road markings from the Second World War. The prisoners are currently giving an old tram stop along the island’s east coast...
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Japan demands California town halts memorial to WWII ‘comfort women’
Japan’s consulate general in Los Angeles is demanding that government officials in one California community put a stop to plans to erect a monument to World War II-era South Koreans who were forcibly...
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