World War 2

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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.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/6/19
  

  The Women Whose Secret Work Helped Win World War II

  The first-hand stories of these trail-blazing women.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/5/19
  

  Pope Francis Says Secret Archives On Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII Will Be Opened Early

  “The church is not afraid of history,” Pope Francis said, announcing the move in a speech to members of the Vatican’s Secret Archives. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  Fierce, feared and female: The WWII pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’

  Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/22/19
  

  These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell

  Miller created deeply empathetic images with a understated, yet unmistakable anti-racist intent.

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• 3/10/19
  

  Hitler's Own Maginot Line

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What the diary of a German against the Third Reich can teach us about the Atlantic Wall. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/19/19
  

  A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.

  The Australian War Memorial, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, will grow to commemorate recent conflicts, including war zones in which Australia still has troops.

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• SOURCE: History Now
  Accessed 2/21/19
  

  Risk Takers and History Makers: Mexican Women of the World War II Generation

  by Vicki L. Ruiz

  Latina history is American history.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/13/19
  

  The wreck of a WWII US Navy aircraft carrier, lost for 76 years, has been found in the South Pacific

  It had lain dormant on the murky ocean floor -- some three miles beneath the surface -- for more than 76 years.

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• SOURCE: Real Clear History
  2/12/19
  

  Sobering Stats: 15,000 U.S. Airmen Killed in Training in WW II

  The B-24 bomber was nicknamed the “flying coffin” due to its many problems.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/11/19
  

  Most women give birth in hospital – but it’s got more to do with World War II than health

  by Carly-Emma Leachman

  Prior to the Maternity and Child Welfare Act of 1918, state involvement in the delivery of babies would have been unimaginable.

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• SOURCE: AP
  2/10/19
  

  Report: Finnish SS volunteers likely killed Jews in WWII

  Finland’s move contrasts with the attitude of some eastern European nations that have sought to diminish their culpability in the Holocaust.

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• 2/20/19
  

  Why Aren't Americans More Enraged About Russian Interference? World War 2 History Helps Explain

  by William K. Klingaman

  Even after Pearl Harbor, "the Greatest Generation" was often complacent about foriegn threats. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/29
  

  The mistake NATO was formed to correct — and how President Trump is repeating it

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  Allies abandoned one another in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, they paid the price.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/6/19
  

  Holocaust survivors receive reparations for deportations on French trains

  49 Holocaust survivors are receiving $402,000 each from the French government in reparations for the French trains that deported them to Nazi concentration camps.