Seventy years ago today, the deadliest conflict in human history began as Germany invaded Poland. Today, leaders of twenty countries gather in Gdansk, Poland, to commemorate the war. Leaders of many of the...
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Operation Overlord, commonly known as "D-Day", commenced on June 6, 1944. American, Canadian and British troops stormed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno Beaches in Normandy as their air support overflew them and scattered paratroops across the French countryside. Facing a...
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" Via my Internet subscription to the french newspaper “Le Figaro” I found an article named “Cette exposition est tout à fait légitime”. Seeking an English written article on the same subject I...
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They are unseen photographs of one of the most infamous men in history and a remarkable insight into the brutality of the Nazi regime in its final days. But mystery surrounds how these black and white snaps of Adolf Hitler, taken by a German soldier standing just a few feet...
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Seventy years after the second World War, there are still attempts to restitution of looted art to their legitimate Owners. In the words of French Minister of Culture and...
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This is one of the most fascinating stories to emerge from WW2 in recent years, it seems to ask many more questions than it answers. I will also add that the opinions of the Melbourne Zionist community are not...
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Have you ever been mellow? Hell no answer pulp fiction masters. Particularly the post World War 2 crew who wrote paperback originals for publishers such as Gold Medal and Lion Books. Though paperbacks got their mass market start in the late 30's, WW2 pushed them over the...
I thought this was really fascinating. Doesn't it seem amazing that it would ever be considered economical to transport rubble over the ocean? But I guess this is related to ballast. Upon reflection, I suppose I...
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"Shoichi Nakagawa, a senior Liberal Democratic Party politician has
called the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 a crime and inexcusable.Nakagawa,
policy chief of the ruling LDP, made the comments after visiting the
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a ruling party official...
October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson
wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be
done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first
bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After
meeting...
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"I want you to know that your government has no information which it
has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the
most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.
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June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait
five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor.
The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something
that should now be solid American history.
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June 6, 2001::Robert Ogg had been in Naval Intelligence during the war.
Ogg had detected the presence of a Japanese task force working its way
toward Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Japanese force had been
under radio silence. But the silence had been broken on a number...
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A code clerk at the U.S. embassy in London discovered secret dispatches
between Roosevelt and Churchill. These revealed that FDR, despite
contrary campaign promises, was determined to engage America in the
war. He smuggled some of the documents out of the embassy, hoping...
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