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  • July 2008

    • Nazi Hunters Track 'Dr. Death' to Patagonia

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jul 9, 08 3:19 AM CDT

      Nazi Hunters Track 'Dr. Death' to Patagonia

      Investigators hunting Nazi war criminals believe they have discovered where their most-wanted war fugitive has been hiding, reports the BBC. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent experts to southern Chile to track down Aribert Heim, dubbed "Dr. Death" for his barbaric experiments on Jews in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Heim performed operations and amputations without anesthesia to see how much pain his victims could withstand. More »

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      Nazi  • World War II  • Holocaust  • war crimes  • Chile  • concentration camp  • Patagonia  • Simon Wiesenthal Center  • Aribert Heim

  • June 2008

    • Spike to Clint: 'We're Not on a Plantation'

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jun 7, 08 7:23 PM CDT

      Spike to Clint: 'We're Not on a Plantation'

      Clint Eastwood told him to “shut his face,” but Spike Lee is talking back in full force: “The man is not my father, and we’re not on a plantation,” he said. Lee further chided the star director for ignoring blacks in his WWII films, calling him "an angry old man" and saying, “Not everything was John Wayne, baby.” More »

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      film  • race  • movies  • World War II  • Clint Eastwood  • Spike Lee

    • On 64th Anniversary, a D-Day Vet Looks Back

      newser  |  Newsday  |  Jun 6, 08 1:48 PM CDT

      On 64th Anniversary, a D-Day Vet Looks Back

      It’s not the horrors of Normandy that haunt Clifton Raynor these days; it’s the horrors of growing old. “Every day is a trying day for me,” the 86-year-old says. Raynor is part of a dying breed who saw D-Day firsthand, and today, on the 64th anniversary of that fateful battle, Newsday sat down to talk with him about it. More »

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      veterans  • World War II  • history

    • Degrees at Last for WWII Internment-Camp Detainees

      newser  |  Daily Barometer  |  Jun 5, 08 5:25 PM CDT

      Degrees at Last for WWII Internment-Camp Detainees

      Oregon State University will honor 42 Japanese-American students who were forced to leave school for a government internment camp in 1941, the Daily Barometer reports. OSU will give 22 honorary degrees to the surviving individuals and family members representing others at its commencement ceremony June 15. More »

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      Japan  • World War II  • Pearl Harbor  • internment

  • May 2008

    • Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 28, 08 7:00 AM CDT

      Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama

      Barack Obama has admitted he got his concentration camps mixed up when speaking to a Memorial Day audience, Reuters reports. The candidate spoke of how his great-uncle helped liberate Auschwitz when, as Republicans were quick to point out, that couldn't have happened unless his relative was in the Soviet Red Army. Obama's great-uncle was actually among the American troops who liberated the prisoners at Buchenwald. More »

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      Barack Obama  • World War II  • Holocaust  • concentration camp  • Auschwitz

    • Busy Military Cemeteries Keep Customers Satisfied

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 25, 08 7:39 AM CDT

      Busy Military Cemeteries Keep Customers Satisfied

      With veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam dying at a record clip, US National Cemeteries are performing more than 100 burials a day—and often use assembly-line tactics to meet demand, AP reports. Despite the use of heavy machinery and the volume—1,800 veterans die each day—the National Cemetery Administration has the highest customer satisfaction score of any government agency or private company, a study has found. More »

    • Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT

      Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh

      A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr. Gachet—though a notebook found with the portrait has been dismissed as not van Gogh's. More »

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      Nazi  • World War II  • Greece  • Vincent Van Gogh  • Athens  • Fine art market

    • Russia Parades Its Might, With Soviet Echoes

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 9, 08 1:46 PM CDT

      Russia Parades Its Might, With Soviet Echoes

      Russia marked the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany today with a parade of Soviet-era of tanks, missile launchers, and columns of foot soldiers, the New York Times reports. President-turned-prime-minister Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dmitry Medvedev, looked on, surrounded by the contrast of communist ritual with symbols of modern Russia's cut-throat capitalism. More »

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      Russia  • Vladimir Putin  • military  • Nazi  • World War II  • Dmitry Medvedev  • Soviet Union  • Soviet

    • Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 3, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

      The last surviving member of a cabal that twice tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler died this week at age 90, the Telegraph reports. Nearly all of Phillip Von Boeselager’s co-conspirators were executed after a 1944 attempt to plant a bomb under the table at Hitler’s East Prussian headquarters, but von Boeselager escaped and Hitler sustained only minor injuries in the blast. More »

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      obituary  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler  • assassin

  • April 2008

    • Group Makes Last Hunt for Top Nazis

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 30, 08 8:33 AM CDT

      Group Makes Last Hunt for Top Nazis

      A doctor at barbaric Mauthausen concentration camp heads the list of the 10 most-wanted Nazis sought by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, AP reports. Aribert Heim, 93, is believed to be living in South America, and has a $485,000 reward on his head. One witness recalled how the physician-butcher decapitated a teenage Jewish athlete and saved his skull for display because of his perfect teeth. More »

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      Nazi  • World War II  • Holocaust  • SS  • Simon Wiesenthal Center  • Aribert Heim

    • Schindler's Autograph on Sale for $154K

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Apr 16, 08 12:33 PM CDT

      Schindler's Autograph on Sale for $154K

      The only known autographed photo of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved 1,400 Jews from death during WWII, is on sale for $154,000, the New York Post reports. The dealer plans to contact Liam Neeson, who played the legend in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to see if he's interested.  More »

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      World War II  • Holocaust  • Jews  • memorabilia  • autographs  • Liam Neeson

    • Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 15, 08 6:04 AM CDT

      Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs

      Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the architects of the war in Iraq who resigned from the Bush administration when the US became mired in the insurgency, is writing his memoirs, Reuters reports. The 75-year-old former congressman won't take an advance and will donate the book's proceeds to a not-for-profit foundation. The memoirs will cover his life from the Depression through the Bush years. More »

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      Iraq war  • Congress  • al-Qaeda  • Pentagon  • World War II  • Ronald Reagan  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Richard Nixon  • Gerald Ford  • Great Depression

    • Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 11, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

      One of aviation’s great mysteries has been solved: What happened to Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, the French pilot and author of The Little Prince, who disappeared in 1944. A bracelet turned up in the Mediterranean a decade ago, then a sunken aircraft. An archeologist diver, not satisfied to stop there, contacted hundreds of veterans before hearing, “You can stop searching. I shot down Saint-Exupéry.” More »

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      France  • World War II  • aviation  • author  • mystery  • unsolved mystery  • Luftwaffe

    • Critics Agog Over South Pacific

      newser  |  Time  |  Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT

      Critics Agog Over South Pacific

      The first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened last night, and the critics agree: It's outstanding. "Its brilliance hasn’t faded," Richard Zoglin writes in Time , calling the new production of perhaps the best Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration “surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying." Writes Ben Brantley of the New York Times: "I’m darned if I can find one serious flaw." More »

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      World War II  • theater  • Broadway

  • March 2008

    • India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      newser  |  Military Times  |  Mar 20, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      US bomber crews that went missing in the Himalayas during World War II may be recovered after more than six decades, reports the Military Times . While experts have long identified potential crash sites, the US military has been unable to access the dangerous border region between India, China, and Burma. Now, India is close to allowing a US-led expedition in. More »

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      China  • India  • World War II  • missing person  • POW  • Himalayas  • MIA

    • WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      newser  |  Sydney Morning Herald  |  Mar 17, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      WWII Ship Found After 66 Years

      A legendary Australian war ship sunk in the Indian Ocean by a German raider during World War II has been found nearly intact after 66 years, the Australian PM confirmed today. The HMAS Sydney sank after a 30-minute battle with the Kormoran in Australia's greatest tragedy at sea. The wreckage won't be disturbed, out of respect for the 645 Australian sailors who went down with the ship. More »

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      Germany  • Australia  • World War II  • history  • discovery  • Kevin Rudd  • Indian Ocean  • sailor  • shipwreck  • sonar

    • Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Mar 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT

      Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

      When Angela Merkel holds her weekly cabinet meeting today, it will meet not in Berlin but in Jerusalem—a special gesture to mark the 60th anniversary of Israeli statehood. Only a few decades ago Israelis marched in protest when the country welcomed its first German ambassador, but now the chancellor will become the first foreign head of government ever to address the Knesset. The Times of London reports on the remarkable evolution of relations between the two nations. More »

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      Israel  • Germany  • Ehud Olmert  • Angela Merkel  • World War II  • Holocaust  • Knesset  • Third Reich  • Frank-Walter Steinmeier

    • WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Mar 12, 08 6:27 PM CDT

      WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

      Millions of land mines and unexploded artillery shells left over from World War II are hampering Egypt's efforts to get at a treasure trove of oil and gas beneath the desert, der Spiegel reports. The ordnance is an unwelcome reminder of the North African conflict between Brits and Erwin Rommel’s Nazi forces. More »

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      oil  • Egypt  • OPEC  • World War II  • natural gas  • natural resources  • land mines

    • Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mar 11, 08 12:55 PM CDT

      Army Cadet Found After 66 Years

      Sixty-six years after his disappearance, a full military funeral is planned for a cadet lost in a flight accident during World War II, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Army has identified a recently discovered body as Aviation Cadet Ernest Munn of Ohio, who crashed with three other crewmen in an AT-7 Navigator flying over Kings Canyon National Park in 1942. More »

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      California  • Ohio  • soldier  • World War II  • accidental death  • MIA  • military funeral

    • Germany Torn Over Reviving Iron Cross

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Mar 7, 08 3:40 PM CST

      Germany Torn Over Reviving Iron Cross

      German officials are debating whether to bring back the Iron Cross, a military insignia closely associated with the Nazi era, the Independent reports. Some 5,000 Germans signed a petition last year calling for the reintroduction of the decoration for "outstanding bravery," which was eliminated in 1945. Others say it’s too mired in bad memories to be appropriate. More »

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      Germany  • Nazi  • World War II  • Adolf Hitler

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