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The Monuments Men: A New Campaign To Find Lost Art

Ian Harvey

Between 1945 and 1951, nearly 5 million works of art and other cultural objects stolen by the Nazis have been found and returned by Monuments…

Last Surviving US Serviceman Aboard B-17 Bomber that Crash-landed on Beach at Burnham-on-Sea Dies in Delaware, USA

Ian Harvey

US Tech. Sgt. Walter C. Skinner was top turret-gunner aboard the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that crash-landed on the beach at Burnham-on-Sea on December 31,…

Battle of the Bulge Still Frozen In Time

Ian Harvey

The American units were preparing for the worst; digging underground shelters, finding places where to sleep, where they could just escape from the cold and…

WWII Sunderland Flying-Boat Rescued With The Help Of Her Last Pilot

Ian Harvey

The Mark I Sunderland was highly valued by Winston Churchill, who considered the U-boats as one of the biggest threats during the war. The 40-strong…

Dutch Railway Museum Opposes a Monument to Utrecht Jewish Deportees

Times of Israel reports: A museum in Utrecht, The Dutch Railway Museum to be exact, is opposing a plan to erect a monument to pay…

Holocaust survivor tells story of the horrors of Auschwitz

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A Holocaust survivor shares the horrors that she has witnessed in Auschwitz almost 70 years after the outbreak of the Second World War. She said…

World War II PoW’s name to be removed from war memorial after he was discovered to have survived until 1989

Siegphyl

A prisoner of war during the World War Two was presumed to have died in the hands of the Nazis. Recently, it was discovered that…

Top 8 WWII Mistakes Made By The Allies

Ian Harvey

  1. The Failure to Attack Germany After It Invaded Poland Starting from the beginning, one of the first mistakes related to the Second World…

George Clooney’s “Monuments Men” Expected in Berlin Film Fest

Heziel Pitogo

Recently, Germany and the world witnessed the news about a treasure trove of priceless artworks stashed away in a dingy Munich flat hidden among piles…

New F-35 built in honor of WWII P-38 pilots

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Officials of Lockheed Martin unveiled their newly assembled F-35 Lightning II  at Fort Worth October 4 this year to honor the World War II veterans…

August Landmesser, shipyard worker in Hamburg, refused to perform Nazi salute

His gesture remains engraved in the minds of people around the world, yet August Landmesser’s name is not widely known. He is the man in the iconic…