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World War II
Blitzkrieg, total war, genocide, resistance, and the war at sea and in the air.
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'Will I ever atone?' A Jewish policeman’s Holocaust confession
48+ min ago (567+ words) Calek Perechodnik was born in 1916 in Otwock, near Warsaw. He married Anna (Anka) Nusfeld, and the couple had a daughter, Athalie, known as Aluska. Before his wife and daughter were murdered at the Treblinka extermination camp, Perechodnik wrote that he…...
246 Years Later, Captain John Paul Jones Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
7+ hour, 40+ min ago (231+ words) Jones answered the captain of HMS Serapis off Flamborough Head on 23 September 1779, with his own ship burning. The line reaches us through one officer who wrote it down years later....
Sunday US Army Quote of the Day by General Dwight D. Eisenhower: “You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.”
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (293+ words) Eisenhower had enormous formal authority and believed cooperation could not be ordered into existence. He described leadership instead as persuasion, conciliation, education and patience....
Haunted by the Holocaust
14+ hour, 16+ min ago (567+ words) One remaining sign of life was also a call for death: A tattered demolition permit clung to a fence cordoning off the driveway to Grossinger's, formerly a 1,200-acre resort that made the Catskill Mountains worth the trip. The permit, hanging…...
Holocaust survivors’ heirs sue California museums for return of Nazi-looted art
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1001+ words) ‘It's our honor to take on this role on behalf of the community and use most of the proceeds to help these elderly survivors’ Two legal actions have been initiated in California by representatives and heirs of Jewish Holocaust victims…...
129 Years Ago, Teddy Roosevelt's Line on Preparing for War Remains One of the Greatest Military Quotes in All of Armed Forces History
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (496+ words) Teddy Roosevelt gave the line at the Naval War College in July 1897, in a speech he titled "Washington's Forgotten Maxim." The maxim was George Washington's, delivered to Congress in January 1790....
'It Was an Industrial Site': I Served Aboard 57,500-Ton Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin and She Is a Floating History Lesson for the US Navy in 2026
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (36+ words) Battleship USS Wisconsin came out of mothballs in 1988, more than thirty years after her last active service in Korea. Seven of her eight boilers were down when the fuel line to the last one ruptured....
Syracuse VA Honors 104-Year-Old Former POW on National POW/MIA Recognition Day | VA Syracuse health care
2+ day, 17+ min ago (232+ words) By Jason Robertson, Public Affairs Officer In recognition of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the Syracuse VA Medical Center had the privilege of honoring 104-year-old World War II Veteran and former Prisoner of War John Shott, recognizing his extraordinary service,…...
Decades after fleeing the Nazis, a Broward survivor's family is honored in Berlin
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (353+ words) Leaflets were distributed in a Berlin neighborhood in early September, inviting residents to a special ceremony. The city, beloved by Max Heppner’s ancestors but their betrayer during World War II, was honoring his family with engraved sidewalk plaques, to be…...
The ‘Ballon Kanone’ Was The First Anti-Aircraft Gun
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (350+ words) The first untethered balloon flight took place on Nov. 21, 1783, with the first military use occurring during the French Revolutionary Wars. A century later during the Franco-Prussian War, the French again deployed observation balloons—and when Prussian troops besieged Paris, they…...