World War 2

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/13/19
  

  They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lie at Rest.

  “With this, we can give back some of their dignity to those who were murdered.”

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• 5/12/19
  

  When War Was a Family Affair

  by Walter R. Borneman

  The stories of family members who served on the same Naval ships in World War II. 

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• 5/14/19
  

  The D-Day Warriors Who Led The Way to Victory in World War ll

  by Alex Kershaw

  An excerpt from The First Wave. 

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• 4/28/19
  

  Why FDR Wouldn't Condemn Hitler

  by Rafael Medoff

  A few words from the White House directly taking issue with Hitler’s aggressive actions and persecution of the Jews could have helped alert the public to the Nazi danger. 

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• SOURCE: WWD
  4/21/19
  

  Author Sarah Rose Writes the Women’s History of World War II With ‘D-Day Girls’

  Rose, who wrote "For All the Tea in China" in 2011, was inspired by her personal connections to the military for "D-Day Girls."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/19/19
  

  From Reconstruction To WWII, How The U.S. Census Has Been Used For Both Good And Bad

  "We're seeing something that has a very dangerous kind of echo to other less progressive approaches to using the census."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Russia isn’t the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications

  by Sarah Nelson

  As the international community becomes increasingly concerned about misinformation and data breaches, the Russian government has announced plans to test its own, sweeping solution to the problem: disconnecting Russia from the global internet.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  4/15/19
  

  Bonn Library Recovers More Than 600 Books Looted After World War II

  The trove was flagged after a Belgian woman unwittingly tried to auction the stolen books.

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• 4/7/19
  

  The Propaganda Posters That Won The U.S. Home Front

  by Albinko Hasic

  Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public. 

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• 3/31/19
  

  The Holocaust and the Christian World

  by Patrick Henry

  A new book offers reflections on the past of antisemitism and challenges for combatting it today. 

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• 3/27/19
  

  A Scorching Look at a Word War II Jewish Ghetto in Poland

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The play is a deep, rich and thoroughly frightening story of the Jews’ battle for survival in the city of Vilna.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/22/19
  

  Why Gen. Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day

  Before the invasion, the Allied commander was at odds with air force officers and Churchill over a controversial plan.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/21/19
  

  The first time the U.S. considered drafting women — 75 years ago

  by Pamela D. Toler

  As legislative debate about drafting women in 1945 shows, if the military need is great enough, women will be drafted no matter how uncomfortable lawmakers are with the prospect.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/20/19
  

  Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

  Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

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• 3/19/19
  

  London at War, 1941, and a New Alice in Wonderland

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Can you really spend a better evening than chasing a white rabbit trotting through the forest with a pocket watch in his hand? A review of Alice By Heart. 

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-five years ago this week—on March 19, 1944—German troops marched into Hungary. The country’s 800,000 Jews, the last major Jewish community to have eluded the raging Holocaust, now lay within Hitler’s grasp.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/12/19
  

  Video of the Week: Julia Child from WW2 Agent to Legendary Chef

  Before she became a world-famous chef, Julia Child worked for a top-secret U.S. intelligence agency, where she helped devise a recipe for shark repellent.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/13/19
  

  Lost World War 2 Aircraft Carrier Found After an Epic Search

  Sunk in 1942, a team of wreck hunters set out to find the U.S.S. Wasp. 

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• 3/10/19
  

  How the Allies Won on D-Day

  by Giles Milton

  A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague

  by Yoav J. Tenembaum

  March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.