Sisters in Science” tells of the rise of female scientists in 1930s Germany – some of whom were Jewish – whose careers were ...
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...
Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The ...
Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey ...
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A Brief Overview of World War II
The war in Europe began in September 1939 when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the ...
Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in ...
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...
Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War II.
Workers dismantling a collapsed bridge over the Elbe river in the eastern German city of Dresden have once again found an ...