Wwii
This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised his contribution to the war effort, saying his art “fights the war against Hitlerism as truly as any of us who cannot actually be on the fighting fronts.”
82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest
Putin's warning: Russia is prepared to go to war against Europe
Steinmeier becomes first German head of state to visit Guernica since 1937 Nazi bombing
The heroic story of the Jewish Brigade in WWII
Tortured in Nazi concentration camps, these individuals survived to fight back. Many had lost relatives, who were assumed to have been gassed and slaughtered.
Building a unique Holocaust museum at Babyn Yar
Despite its notoriety, no museum or substantive memorial exists to mark Babyn Yar.
Letter sent by British WWII soldier delivered after being lost 76 years
British Lance Corporal John Wheldon-Williams, who was serving in Italy, wrote the letter to Pat Moore in 1944.
Russia deploys advanced S-300 missiles to disputed islands near Japan
Japan is highly sensitive to military moves by Russia on the strategically important chain of islands that stretch northeast from Japan's Hokkaido to the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka.
The Nuremberg Trials - 75 years on
After six years of war, the Allied powers came together to deliver justice on Nazi leaders who had caused the deaths of millions of people.
‘Glamour Boys’: When an LGBT group of British MPs foresaw Hitler’s threat
At a time when gay sex was still illegal in Britain, their decision to break ranks with then prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler in the 1930s was all the more courageous.
The story of the Resistance Movement in Hungary
As we reflect 75 years after the end of World War II, we have much documentation about great resistance to the Nazis in many countries.
Australian chain criticized for 'WWII evacuee' children's costume
While the official Smiffys site markets the costume as "wwii evacuee girl," at least one major site which sold the costume overseas had marketed it as an "Anne Frank costume."
Did World War II bring humanity peace, or are we back at square 1?
MIDDLE ISRAEL: 75 years on, the tools of the worst violence in human history are largely obsolete, but the mindset that underpinned it is alive and well
How political rivalries led to victimizing WWII refugees who had suffered most
In The Last Million, David Nasaw reveals the fate of people, “living, moving, pallid wreckage” in 1945, who refused to go home or had no home to return to.
