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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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World War II stories: 104 news summaries

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Julia Child Dished Up Secrets in WWII

Chef one of several famous Americans revealed as spies

Aug 14, 08 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Legendary chef Julia Child, Hollywood star Sterling Hayden, White Sox catcher Moe Berg and historian Arthur Schlesinger were all spies for the US, according to newly declassified documents. Untold stories and clandestine heroics of World War II will come to light today as authorities release 750,000 pages of files... More »

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CIA • World War II • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. • National Archives • Harry Truman • Julia Child • Moe Berg • Sterling Hayden • John Hemingway • Kermit Roosevelt • Quentin Roosevelt • OSS • Office of Strategic Services • William Casey

WWII Bomb Found in Budapest; Thousands Flee

Thousands of unexploded bombs still buried in city

Jul 29, 08 8:01 AM CDT
(AP) - Some 16,000 people were evacuated yesterday in Budapest after construction workers unearthed a huge unexploded bomb from World War II. The 2-ton explosive, being disarmed today by experts, is one of the largest found in the city since 1945. Thousands of unexploded bombs are believed to be buried in... More »

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bomb • evacuation • World War II • Hungary • Budapest

Nazi Hunters Track 'Dr. Death' to Patagonia

Sadistic concentration camp physician is most wanted surviving Nazi

Jul 9, 08 3:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

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

But he takes 'Obama high road,' wishing Dirty Harry 'peace and love'

Jun 7, 08 7:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

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

He recalls old battles with pride

Jun 6, 08 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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veterans • history • World War II • D-Day

Degrees at Last for WWII Internment-Camp Detainees

Oregon State to honor Japanese Americans taken from campus in 1941

Jun 5, 08 5:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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 • internment • World War II • Pearl Harbor • Oregon State University

 Auschwitz Gaffe Trips Obama 

Candidate mixes up his camps when talking about great-uncle

May 28, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Busy Military Cemeteries
 Keep Customers Satisfied 

1,800 vets a day are dying

May 25, 08 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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veterans • Department of Veterans Affairs • Vietnam veteran • Arlington National Cemetery • World War II • Korean War • National Cemeteries • National Cemetery Administration

 Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh 

Work said to be 'liberated' from Nazis billed as third portrait of Dr. Gachet

May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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

 Russia Parades Its Might,
With Soviet Echoes

Red Square display, marking defeat of Nazis, puts revived military on display

May 9, 08 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Obituary

Would-Be Hitler Killer Dead at 90

Von Boeselager escaped after
trying to murder
the Führer twice

May 3, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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obituary • Adolf Hitler • World War II • assassin

 Group Makes
 Last Hunt for
 Top Nazis 

Death camp doctor who decapitated Jewish teen heads the list

Apr 30, 08 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Holocaust • Nazi • World War II • SS • Mauthausen concentration camp • Simon Wiesenthal Center • Aribert Heim • John Demjanjuk • Sandor Kepiro • Milivoj Asner • Soeren Kam • Erich Wasicky • Berlin Document Center

Schindler's
Autograph on Sale for $154K

WWII hero signed
photo for one of 1,400 Jews he saved

Apr 16, 08 12:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

 Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs 

Proceeds will go to foundation

Apr 15, 08 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Mystery of Little Prince Author's Fate Solved

German vet tells archaeologist, 'I shot down Saint-Exupéry'

Apr 11, 08 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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France • aviation • World War II • mystery • author • unsolved mystery • Luftwaffe • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

THEATER REVIEW

 Critics Agog Over South Pacific 

Show's first Broadway revival draws unanimous praise

Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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theater • Broadway • World War II • Rodgers and Hammerstein • revival

 India to Help US Hunt
 Lost WWII Crews 

Expedition to India for MIAs

Mar 20, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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China • India • POW • World War II • Himalayas • missing person • MIA • US Army Air Force • Arunachal Pradesh • Irwin Zaetz • Rear Admiral Donna Crisp

 WWII Ship Found After 66 Years 

Legendary HMAS Sydney sank in battle with German raider

Mar 17, 08 11:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Merkel Holds Cabinet Meeting in Jerusalem

German celebrates Israeli statehood
with 3-day trip

Mar 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

WWII Mines Block Egypt's Access to Oil

4.8B barrels of crude
lie under 22M mines, shells in desert

Mar 12, 08 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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’... More »

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

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