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AP PHOTOS: The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror

During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.

The Independent UK

Zelenskyy visits Poland as sides reach deal on exhuming Polish victims of WWII-era massacres

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Poland after the two countries reached an agreement on a longstanding source of tensions between them: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era massacres by Ukrainian nationalists

The Independent UK

You Can Buy a Real, Armored Presidential Limo

Did you know Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to have an armored limousine? At the height of World War II, the Secret Service decided that the president needed a safer means of transportation. And that tradition still stands today.

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Russia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on

Russia has had similar troughs in its demographics during World War II and after the fall of the Soviet Union—but things are different this time.

Fortune

Gun Used By United Healthcare Assassin May Have Been Rare WWII Spy Weapon: Report

The gun used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson may have been a modern version of a rare World War II-era spy weapon, investigators revealed.

Latin Times

Experts say Kamala Harris housing plan is most-aggressive since World War II

“Our lack of affordable housing will continue to depress savings, opportunity, and growth in ways that will do long-term harm to the nation’s economy.”

Fortune

British Wartime Rationing Reveals a Shocking Truth About Sugar

British sugar rationing during World War II created a population of babies who grew up with reduced sugar consumption, revealing lower risk for chronic conditions.

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History Teacher Gets Put In Her Place After Accusing Student Of Lying When He Corrects Her

These are facts that any history teacher worth their salt should know. If they find that they have some gaps in their knowledge about World War II, they should be willing to educate themselves. The post History Teacher Gets Put In Her Place After Accusing Student Of Lying When He…

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With or without the far right in power, Austria's links with Russia cause concern among allies

Ever since Austria held elections last month, the prospect of the country's first far-right led government since the end of World War II has raised concern among its allies

The Independent UK

Anne Frank's Secret Annex Replica To Make US Debut In New York On Holocaust Remembrance Day

A full-scale replica of the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid during World War II is set to make its debut in the U.S. for the first time

International Business Times

Two German pilots killed in WWII-era airplane crash in Finland

The crash happened minutes after take-off

The Independent UK

French lake still riddled with bombs 80 years after World War II

The apparently pristine Gerardmer lake in the Vosges mountains of eastern France conceals a bleak legacy of 20th-century conflict – dozens of tonnes of unexploded ordnance from the two world wars.

Radio France Internationale

Emotional Who Do You Think You Are viewers call Olly Murs episode the ‘saddest ever’

Murs’ great-grandmother was never reunited with her son after World War II

The Independent UK

The other D-Day: France's forgotten colonial troops and the Provence landings

It's one of the untold stories of World War II: how France whitewashed its colonial troops during the liberation from Nazi rule. On August 15, 1944, experienced fighters who came from all corners of the French empire landed in southern France and won key battles to liberate the nation. But…

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Russia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on

Russia has had similar troughs in its demographics during World War II and after the fall of the Soviet Union—but things are different this time.

International Business Times

'Tsunami Of Anti-Semitism' Stirs Fears Of Dark Days For Jews

Surging anti-Semitism since Hamas's October 7 attack sparked the war in Gaza recalls the run-up to World War II, with fear spreading through Jewish communities worldwide, top European and US envoys warned this week.

The Independent UK

The Grenfell fire inquiry has ended with a damning report. So now what?

Now that an independent inquiry has completed its investigation into Britain’s deadliest residential fire since World War II, survivors and bereaved relatives are demanding that criminal charges be brought against those responsible for the blaze that killed 72 people in 2017

The Conversation

The Nuremberg Code isn’t just for prosecuting Nazis − its principles have shaped medical ethics to this day

After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of international law. But one of them has also been applied in peacetime: the “Medical Trial,” which has helped to…

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Kamala Harris’s housing plan is the most aggressive since post–World War II boom, experts say

“Our lack of affordable housing will continue to depress savings, opportunity, and growth in ways that will do long-term harm to the nation’s economy.”

France 24

Meeting Japan’s World War II orphans born to US soldiers and Japanese mothers

In Japan, they are known as "children of mixed blood": those born after 1945 to an American GI and a Japanese woman and abandoned due to stigma. Eighty years after the end of World War II, we went to meet some of these orphans to understand more about their painful…

Radio France Internationale

France racing to build giant army camp for Paris Olympics security

To house the thousands of soldiers tasked with keeping the Paris Olympics safe, France is building the largest army camp its mainland has seen since World War II, at breakneck pace.

International Business Times

France Racing To Build Giant Army Camp For Paris Olympics Security

To house the thousands of soldiers tasked with keeping the Paris Olympics safe, France is building the largest army camp its mainland has seen since World War II, at breakneck pace.

The Independent UK

D-Day anniversary shines a spotlight on 'Rosie the Riveter' women who built the weapons of WWII

In World War II, millions of women rolled up their sleeves and worked in defense-industry factories, freeing up and equipping men for combat

The Independent UK

The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy

Across Normandy, France, where the largest-ever land, sea and air armada punctured Adolf Hitler’s defenses in western Europe on D-Day, Allied veterans of World War II are the VVIPs of 80th anniversary celebrations this week

Radio France Internationale

Senegalese rifleman who fought for France prepares to carry Olympic flame

Oumar Dieme, a former rifleman from Senegal who fought alongside the French during its colonial wars, will help carry the Olympic torch as part of the opening of this summer's Paris Games. The 91-year-old says it's a miracle he was picked.

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