Well-told history recounts a shameful segment of World War II
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RISING '44: The Battle for Warsaw. By Norman Davies. Viking. 752 pages. $32.95. War is hell; that much we know.
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âThe Unknown Soldierâ takes on the idea that ordinary German soldiers were for the most part unaware of and uninvolved in the worst crimes of the Nazi regime.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of   one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,   reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off   European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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Notorious internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War II will be preserved as stark reminders of how the United States turned on some of its citizens in a time of fear.
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A published account of Italyâs national malaise prompted a critical â and very public â collective self-assessment.
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On Jan. 27, 1945, Yakov Vinnichenko walked through the gates of Auschwitz into a netherworld of ghostly, emaciated women huddled together in dark barracks to prop one another up. "Some tried to kiss us, but it was uncomfortable &#151; you didn't want to get infected," the one-time Soviet infantryman recalls.
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It was a day of jubilation &#151; World War II seemed almost over. But before night fell, joy gave way to terror.
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MAALOT-TARSHIHA, Israel -- Franz Feibel spent five years in the Buchenwald concentration camp, helplessly watching the ashes of Jewish prisoners spew out of the crematorium smokestack.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of  one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,  reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off  European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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"And that cannot be underestimated."  WARSAW, Poland ---- They spent their childhoods in the rich, layered Jewish life of prewar Poland, then survived Hitler's mission to wipe out European Jewry in the ghettos and gas chambers of occupied Europe. via North County Times
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History today is not so much written by the victors as by the vanquished.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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This is a story of love, sacrifice and tribute. It is the story of Staff Sgt. Don Fogle -- an average guy from an average Midwest town -- whose U.S. Army service in World War II encompassed the horrors of a ...
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For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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The Nobel laureate draws fire for his secret Nazi past. But his lies may have helped postwar Germany face some bitter truths
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When Helen Springut was growing up, her parents wouldn't vacation in Germany or buy a German car. The legacy of the Holocaust was too bitter.
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Politics, however, still interferes in recollections of that horrible period even 60 years afterwards.