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Black female WWII unit the Six Triple Eight will receive the Congressional Gold Medal
The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, the Six Triple Eight, will be presented with the ...
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WWII GIs’ quest to avert leveling of beloved German town comes alive on big screen
A new film details the intervention of six American GIs who risked their lives 80 years ago to save Rothenburg ob der Tauber ...
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Anniversary event for German WWII camp’s liberation puts pleas for vigilance alongside remembrance
The U.S. Army’s 90th Infantry Division arrived at Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany on April 23, 1945. Hundreds ...
Secret note found inside violin built in concentration camp: "Made under difficult conditions"
A Jewish prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau secretly penned a short note and hid it inside a violin he had ...
My Grandmother, the Anti-Fascist: 'Jails Were Filled With Women Who Had Dared Rebel' (Exclusive)
In researching her new book, 'Women of War,' author Suzanne Cope found a whole new side of her grandmother. In an exclusive ...
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Hidden in a famous WWII photo, two heroic Jewish stories
The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis — and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...
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German prosecutors launch homicide probe after police shoot dead Black man
BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) - A German police officer has been suspended from duty pending a homicide investigation after shooting dead a 21-year-old Black man, state prosecutors said on Thursday ...