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When an unsung Indian helped Austrian Jews escape the Nazis
In the shadow of Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria, Kundanlal, a machine tool manufacturer from Ludhiana city in the ...
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82 Years Ago, the Soviet Union Shattered the Nazi Empire at Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.
Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering
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Historic plane that flew in Berlin Airlift makes stop in Bryan
Nearly a hundred people showed up to welcome one of the last Douglas C-54 planes that participated in the Berlin Airlift that ...
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When All Hell Broke Loose: Germany’s Last Defences vs the Soviet Onslaught WW2
By mid-1944, the Red Army launched a war of annihilation. Against them stood a crumbling Wehrmacht, stretched thin and outgunned. This is the opening of one of WWII’s most devastating offensives—where ...
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The Final Days of the Reich: French, Nordic, and Hitler Youth Forces in Berlin’s Inferno
The Third Reich was collapsing, and Berlin had become a furnace of fire and ruin. But among the rubble, a desperate coalition ...