WW II

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• 5-15-16
  

  The World War 2 Maritime Disaster that History Forgot

  by Robert P. Watson

  It was the mistaken sinking of the Nazi Titanic – Cap Arcona. The British bombed the ship at the end of the war, killing thousands of Holocaust survivors.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3-28-16
  

  Guam WWII survivors to sue U.S. government for reparations

  A group of advocates are working to finalize a nonprofit organization called Guam World War II Reparations Advocates Inc., which plans to sue the U.S. government in hopes that survivors finally receive compensation the group believes they deserve.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  3-28-16
  

  Former "Rosie the Riveters" honored in Washington

  The ceremony came more than seventy years after they helped America win World War 2.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3-23-16
  

  The Forward finds that the US spy agency targeted American Jews in WW2

  A review of documents released in the 1980s but unexamined until now shows the extent to which Jews were spying on Jews.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  2-11-16
  

  One of the last remaining Nazis goes on trial in Germany

  The suspect is a 94-year-old former Nazi SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-11-16
  

  Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery, Book Says

  The book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II.

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• SOURCE: WalesOnline
  12-21-15
  

  Historian reveals the story behind one of the world's most iconic images of war

  Research has shed new light on the impact of Herbert Mason's famous picture of St Paul's Cathedral taken during the Second World War

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• SOURCE: Mental Floss
  12-1-15
  

  Hitler’s Plan to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—at the Same Time

  by David Brown

  During World War II, heads of state were on high alert for assassination attempts.

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• 11-29-15
  

  This 98-Year-Old Historian’s Got Advice for You

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  You should reveal your role in making history.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9-3-15
  

  China military parade commemorates WW2 victory over Japan

  China has held a lavish parade in Beijing to mark the defeat of Japan in World War Two, showcasing its military might on an unprecedented scale.

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• SOURCE: Asia-Pacific Journal
  8-31-15
  

  Japanese historian upends the familiar narrative of WW 2 by taking a bottom up approach, focusing on fascism from the grassroots

  by Ethan Mark

  As a young historian researching prewar popular political movements in the early 1970s, Yoshimi Yoshiaki (b. 1946) became increasingly struck—and troubled—by the systematic inattention to popular experiences of the war period. So he wrote Grassroots Fascism: a radically different vantage on the wartime experience from the “bottom-up” and a bold attempt to break out of the constricted confines of “history in the passive voice.”

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• 8-29-15
  

  Review of Kaarel Piirimae's "Roosevelt, Churchill and the Baltic Question: Allied Relations during the Second World War"

  by Maris Mantenieks

  Piirimae's book, is the first comprehensive study of the "Baltic Question" in Big Three diplomacy during WWII.

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• 8-28-15
  

  World War II: From the Chinese Perspective

  by Tom Clifford

  The history’s more relevant than ever as Russia, China and Japan manipulate it for their ends.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-21-15
  

  How Moscow’s man in Westminster charmed Churchill out of Britain’s wartime secrets

  by Gabriel Gorodetsky

  Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the most pivotal events of the interwar era, recording them in the only diary to have been written by a major Soviet official during Stalin’s great terror.

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• 8-30-15
  

  What You Don’t Know About the End of World War II

  by Stephen Harding

  The story of the last American killed in combat in World War II – and how his death almost changed the course of history.

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• SOURCE: io9
  6-4-15
  

  This Animated Data Visualization Of World War II Fatalities Is Shocking

  It’s difficult to conceptualize excessively large numbers, particularly when they pertain to human tragedies. But this highly-engaging animated data visualization by Neil Halloran makes WWII-related deaths all too comprehensible.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-10-11
  

  Japan’s way of remembering World War II still infuriates its neighbors

  by Sarah Hyde

  Unlike Germany, Japan never faced up to its wartime crimes. School children barely know what happened.

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• 8-11-15
  

  “I Did a Rather Stupid Thing” – Searching for My Grandfather’s Private Murray in the Last Days of WW II

  by Joshua Spivak (Interview by Marc Spivak)

  A moving story about a historian’s investigation of his grandfather’s war story.

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• 8-9-15
  

  The Ugly and Forgotten Legacy of Potsdam

  by Bradley Brewer

  The United States was complicit in legalizing the largest episode of ethnic cleansing that occurred in the twentieth century when 12,000,000 to 16,000,000 Germans came to be expelled from their historic homelands.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  7-31-15
  

  It’s a national historic site, but hardly anybody visits the Idaho internment camp where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated in WW II

  There’s not even a visitor’s center.