Wwii

Were your ancestors Nazis? New research tool allows people to find out

Soon after the publication of the search engine, users took to social media to share their discoveries of Nazi ancestors.

A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.
Members of the US Air Force Pararescue, April 5, 2026; illustrative.

Behind the US Air Force unit that spearheaded the mission to rescue downed airman

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 

Morton Sher's fighter plane was shot down in 1943.

82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest


Remains of US soldier missing since World War II identified after 80 years

Bryant, at the time 23 -years-old, was assigned to Company B, 4th Ranger Battalion, a unit known as Darby's Rangers.

Operation Avalanche 1943

Korean-Japanese dive probes fate of 183 drowned at Josei coal mine in WWII

Japanese government says it's 'practically difficult' to conduct an investigation due to unclear burial location.

 Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Japan airport shut after likely WW2-era bomb explodes near runway, 87 flights cancelled

The cause of the explosion was an American bomb that had been buried beneath the land surface.

 Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows part of a damaged taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Oct. 2, 2024. The airport's runway was closed earlier in the day after an explosion was reported, resulting in the suspension of all Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways flights.

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain - report

Hamas planned to extort Britain with the bodies, intending to claim a payment and have Britain retract Liz Truss's comments on an embassy in Jerusalem.

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Caring for the graves of Jewish WWII soldiers, 80 years on 

Operation Benjamin: making sure the graves of Jewish American GIs who fell in World War II are properly marked.

 DR. STEWART SADOWSKY and Dr. Samantha Baskind lower the casket of First Lt. Nathan Baskind into the grave, overseen by Normandy American Cemetery superintendent Scott Desjardins.

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

Traversing time and geography through literature.

 UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic army, awaits the next round of prisoner exchange, in Alexandrovka village

Jewish D-Day veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave to receive a proper burial

The group had never before uncovered a Jewish American who had been buried with the very Nazis he was fighting.

Troops in an LCVP landing craft approach Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944

Postcards looted from Jews by German soldier returned by granddaughter 80 years later

Nine years after his death, when McCabe was 18, she inherited part of his proud stamp collection.

 German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

Israel is being held to a double standard which punishes the victim - opinion

Let us not forget, that in the last months of World War II, Nazi Germany was subjected to enormous bombing attacks by the Allied countries.

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Nazi flag hung at Rangers match sparks outrage

The flag with the Nazi symbol was hung as the Rangers marked Armed Forces Day.

 A Russian totenkopf flag seen in 2014. The flag consists of a Totenkopf skull symbol used as SS emblem in Nazi Germany and the black-yellow-white first "State flag" of the Russian Empire (1858–1896) used by some Russian ultra-nationalists.