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Republican Warns Of Modern-Day Hitler Invasion

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is known for his unusual Twitter feed, and he took to the website again on Saturday with more unique posts. Grassley s...

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Osaka Mayor: Wartime Sex Slaves Were Necessary

AP | MALCOLM FOSTER | Posted 05.14.2013 | World
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TOKYO -- An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military's forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary t...

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Last Surviving Member Of Historic WWII Unit Dies

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- John J. Wilpers Jr., the last surviving member of the U.S. Army intelligence unit that captured former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki ...

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PHOTOS: Bizarre New Take On Classic Children's Character

Posted 01.11.2013 | Books
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Peter Panzerfaust, Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tyler Jenkins's comic book series inspired by J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan, puts the classic children's char...

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G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash's The United States and the Second World War

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 02.20.2013 | Books
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Lawrence Wittner

Wars are frequently glamourized in American popular thought, but none more than World War II. Historians, whose business it is to provide the truth about the past, tend to present a more nuanced picture of the Second World War.

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World War II Veteran Who Liberated Nazi Train Dies

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 12.19.2012 | Politics
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Carrol Walsh, a retired state judge whose account of liberating Holocaust victims from a Nazi train led to reunions with the survivors...

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A German Woman's Haunting Letter To Hitler

Posted 06.25.2012 | Books
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The following is an excerpt from "Letters to Hitler" [Polity, $25.00]: For Christmas 1930, thirty-two-year-old Elsa Walter, from Karlsruhe in Baden...

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World War II Film Could Help Today's Veterans

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2012 | Politics
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"Let There Be Light," a 1946 short film by director and veteran John Huston, could hold valuable information to help today's veterans deal with post-t...

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Memorial Day 2012

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 05.27.2012 | Politics
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Joe Peyronnin

This weekend the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Sadly, for many Americans the holiday mostly marks the beginning of summer rather than a time to remember those who gave their lives in service to their country.

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How World War II Changed The Way Americans Ate

Posted 04.03.2012 | Books
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Madeleine Crum, The Huffington Post: The following is an excerpt from Lizzie Collingham's "The Taste of War," [Penguin, $36.00] which, as its name imp...

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D-Day is Here

Patrick Quinlan | Posted 05.30.2012 | Teen
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Patrick Quinlan

As a high school senior, it is easy to envision myself as a scared private waiting on the shore, knowing the high chance of failure that awaits. College decision announcements are around the corner. D-Day is upon us.

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EXCERPT: Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story

Posted 03.27.2012 | Books
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Madeleine Crum, The Huffington Post: The following is an excerpt from from "Two Rings: A Story of Love and War," by Millie Werber and Eve Keller [Publ...

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Oldest Holocaust Survivor On What Gave Her Hope

Posted 03.13.2012 | Books
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The following is excerpted from "Alice’s Piano" by Melissa Müller [St. Martin's, $26.99]: ‘Practise the Chopin Études, they will save you.’...

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Sunken Treasure: British WWII Sub Found Near Malta

Posted 01.12.2012 | World
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Nearly 70 years after sinking off the coast of Malta, the HMS Olympus, a British submarine that served during World War II, has been found and identif...

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New Archive Gives Insight Into Hitler's Taste In Art

ARTINFO | Posted 01.29.2012 | Arts
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ARTINFO

Richard Wagner was his favorite composer and Arno Breker his official house sculptor -- but Adolf Hitler's taste in art was surprisingly broad -- and gaudy -- judging by a vast archive of some 11,000 Nazi-era exhibition installation photos now published online for the first time.

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"You Have Chosen Poorly!" The Problem With Historical Analogies and U.S. Policy

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 10.18.2011 | World
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Franz-Stefan Gady

Analogies are used widely for justification or advocacy or to assist in processing difficult information. The problem arises when policy makers select 'bad' analogies.

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Memorial Day, Father's Day and Getting Dad to Talk World War II

Ben Mankiewicz | Posted 07.31.2011 | Los Angeles
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Ben Mankiewicz

This time of year, as Memorial Day runs into Father's Day, I always try to coax my dad into talking about World War II. It's not as if he won't answer my questions, but he's never started a dinner table conversation with "Did I ever tell you about the time I killed two Nazis with my canteen?"

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How Railways Made Large-Scale War Possible

Christian Wolmar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Christian Wolmar

Railways changed the nature of warfare, and created the potential for prolonged and mass scale warfare.

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Nazi Book Reveals British Invasion Plans

Telegraph | Richard Savill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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It reveals that postcards identifying unmistakable landmarks including Brighton Pier, and Lands End, were given to Nazi troops to identify their targe...

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Three Women: Profiles in Courage

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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George Heymont

In 1964, when Jan & Dean scored a huge hit with their song, "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena," listeners quickly fell in love with the refrain "Go g...

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Clam Boat Fisherman Blistered, Sickened After Crew Pulls Aboard Canisters Of Mustard Agent Off Long Island

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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BOSTON — State and federal officials worked Tuesday to decontaminate a clam boat anchored in isolation off Massachusetts after it dredged up old...

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Japanese Midget Sub Discovered: Pearl Harbor Mystery Solved, Says Team

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Researchers believe that they have found a fifth "midget submarine" sent by the Japanese Empire to participate in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. ...

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German Law Clears All Its WW2 Nazi "Traitors"

Reuters | Caroline Copley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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BERLIN (Reuters) �" The German parliament passed a law Tuesday clearing the names of those branded traitors by the Nazis in World War Two -- ending ...

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Poland Caused WWII: Russian Report

AP | MIKE ECKEL | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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MOSCOW — As the Kremlin presses a campaign to recast Russia's 20th century history in a more favorable light, a research paper published Thursda...

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Francesca Biller

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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