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Wiener Library launches Britain's first exhibition on Nazi camp slave labour
2+ hour, 29+ min ago (488+ words) The Wiener Holocaust Library launched its latest exhibition this week, with speakers including Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke and journalist Jonathan Freedland." Nazi Slave Labour: Perpetrators & Victims, is the latest free public exhibition on display at the Library's Bloomsbury exhibition gallery…...
Swiss intel to unveil secret file of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
9+ hour, 4+ min ago (621+ words) The secret file of the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele will be unveiled to the public, the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) announced last week. Known as the "Angel of Death," Mengele advanced the Nazi ideology's racial ideology and carried…...
Indonesia's agonizing memories under the jackboot of the Japanese army
9+ hour, 27+ min ago (569+ words) A woman looks at the historical information board during a ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the Battle of the Java Sea at a Dutch war cemetery in Surabaya, February 27, 2025. /CFP Editor's note: Meng Dong is an observer of international affairs....
Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele - AOL
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (292+ words) The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service will grant access to the files on Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, after years of rejecting repeated requests by historians who sought to see if the German death camp doctor spent time in Zurich when…...
One war, two families. How a Dutch family adopted fallen Lansing hero
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (1316+ words) LANSING " In 1944, Hubert Thane Bauman II traveled a few blocks west from his home on Ferguson Street to the train station on'Michigan Avenue and'said'what turned out to be'his last goodbyes to his family.' Bauman grew up in the Eastfield Neighborhood,…...
China Focus: Friendship never sinks as Chinese, British families honor heroic WWII rescue
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (720+ words) Xinhua 21 May 2026, 15: 46 GMT+ by Xinhua writers Ji Hang, Huang Zechen, Zheng Keyi HANGZHOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Before a seaside monument on an island off the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province, Josephine Olsson embraced Wu Xiaofei, the descendant of a Chinese…...
Vilnius Exhibition Revives Memory Of The Great Synagogue And Jewish Life In Lithuania
12+ hour, 29+ min ago (723+ words) VILNIUS, Lithuania " A major exhibition opening this week in Lithuania's capital is bringing renewed international attention to the rediscovery of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, once regarded as one of the most important Jewish religious and cultural centers in Eastern…...
We Killed Yamamoto: the P-38 assassination of the man behind Pearl Harbor
8+ hour, 4+ min ago (482+ words) The Lightning truly shined in the Pacific theater; seven of the top eight scoring USAAF aces in the Pacific flew the P-38. On April 18, 1943, the long range of the P-38 enabled USAAF pilots to ambush and shoot down an aircraft carrying Admiral…...
Sailors honor American POWs, Japanese laborers who died building wartime dam
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (558+ words) Command Master Chief Petty Officer Luis Creollo of Sasebo Naval Base lays flowers on the Soto Dam cenotaph in Sasebo, Japan, May 21, 2026. (Janiqua Robinson/Stars and Stripes) SASEBO, Japan " U. S. sailors and members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force gathered Thursday…...
Somerset WWII veteran Leo Desrosiers turns 100 on Memorial Day
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (24+ words) Fall River Herald News Somerset WWII veteran Leo Desrosiers turns 100 on Memorial Day...