Polish Archeologists Prepare WWII Items
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An open pocket knife, two Smith and Wesson revolvers, now rusty, and an airman's gilded badge _ all flew with the Canadian and British crew of a World War II bomber on its final mission carrying aid for ...Comment
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Preparations for the Day of Memory of the Jewish People's Genocide have begun in Lithuania.
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FUERSTENSEE, Germany Deep in the Pomeranian forest, hidden among the groves of scraggly pine and birch, the World War II bomb squad is hard at work.
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Hundreds of World War II crash sites still dot the European landscape, but finding them isn't as easy as one may think.
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A Canadian group seeking to recover a World War II bomber from the north Atlantic seabed off Ireland hopes a special survey next year will pinpoint its location, it said.
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Poland had a strong resistance - but the uprising was crushed Historians in Poland have discovered the wreckage of a World War II RAF Halifax bomber along with the remains of its British and Canadian crew.Comment
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MIAMI - The US government has agreed to settle with Holocaust survivors who claim that Army officers during World War II plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by the Nazis.
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Poland expects to sign an agreement with the United States by October to allow parts of a U.S. anti-missile shield to be built on Polish soil, a Polish official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Ivory statues, Buddhist carvings, gold coins and thousands of other precious objects from the Kabul Museum feared stolen or destroyed under Soviet occupation and Taliban rule have been found, an American archaeologist has said.
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OSWIECIM, Poland -- At first, the red-brick barracks look almost respectable, numbered like normal houses along tree-lined paths. But then the gas chamber reveals itself through the wintry fog, and the death wall where prisoners were stripped and shot, and the soil and ponds still full of teeth and crumbled bones from incinerated corpses.
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WARSAW, October 5  - Poland, one of the main pillars of the US-led occupation in Iraq, will soon fix a date for the withdrawal of its 2,500 troops, its defense minister said Tuesday, October 5, while his Italian counterpart also shocked
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Two more countries have endorsed opening a Nazi war archive to Holocaust museums, bringing the documents locked away for more than half a century a step closer to release, Red Cross officials said Tuesday.
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Poland&#39;s army has begun preparing a new troop contingent that would be sent to Iraq early next year if needed, the country&#39;s defence minister said Saturday, despite public opinion against the mission.
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Army bomb experts are examining two suspicious objects in County Londonderrry.
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The US government and Hungarian Holocaust survivors announced Monday they have settled claims that the Army wasted and pillaged family treasures that were seized by Nazis and loaded onto a train in the waning days of World War II.
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World War II is near its end. The Nazi empire is crumbling from its edges inward as Soviet and Allied forces advance. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, and political enemies of the Third Reich already have been systematically exterminated. Hundreds of thousands are still in death camps praying for rescue.
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"Let remembrance of this serve as a shield that will protect us and generations to come against resentment, hate, aggression, racism and anti-Semitism"  In a ceremony near the rubble of the gas chambers, a representative of Polish President Lech Kaczynski said the world should remember those who saved the lives of others during the six years of World War II, ... via Ynetnews