World War 2 
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SOURCE: History
1/20/2021
How Tuskegee Airmen Fought Military Segregation With Nonviolent Action
Alan Osur and Todd Moye help tell the story of the efforts of the Tuskegee Airmen to integrate military recreational facilities in 1944.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/7/2021
South Korean Court Orders Japan to Pay Compensation for Wartime Sexual Slavery
A South Korean court ordered the Japanese government to pay direct restitution to 12 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. Japan has rejected the court's authority.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/2/2021
Man Travels to Virginia in Quest to Interview WWII Veterans
A young Californian has traveled across the world after founding a nonprofit agency to collect and preserve the stories of surviving World War II veterans.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
12/8/2020
Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due 75 Years After the End of World War II
This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy.
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SOURCE: New York Post
12/12/2020
Hitler’s Pet Alligator to be Stuffed, Put on Display in Russia
The 84 year-old reptile will be stuffed and displayed in Moscow after traveling from Mississippi to Berlin and being gifted to Russia by British troops after the capture of Berlin in 1945.
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12/13/2020
Seven Years from the "Day of Infamy" to "Human Rights Day"
by Rick Halperin
"As 2020 comes to a close, even in the midst of a terrible pandemic which may claim 300,000 U.S. deaths by year’s end, we would do well to pause and reflect upon how much progress has been made, and still needs to be made, in the struggle for human rights."
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SOURCE: Popular Mechanics
12/4/2020
Fishermen Catch WWII Mine, Extremely Satisfying Explosion Ensues
The Royal Navy identified the mine as a German device dating to the World War II era and detonated it underwater.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
12/8/2020
Europe’s Most Terrible Years
World War II was bookended by the infliction of mass suffering on Poles at the war's beginning and on German civilians at the war's end, with the worst years of Europe's history in between.
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SOURCE: New York Post
12/6/2020
Unexploded 1,100-Pound World War II Bomb Found In Frankfurt
Unexploded munitions from war pose a potentially serious threat to the public, as a construction crew in Frankfurt discovered recently.
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SOURCE: Worcester (MA) Telegram and Gazette
12/7/2020
Last Pearl Harbor Fighter Plane that Still Flies a Historical Highlight at American Heritage Museum in Hudson
A series of accidents allowed a P-40 fighter plane to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; after crashing in service a month later, the plane lay on a Hawaiian mountainside until 1985, when it was restored to flight condition using parts from other planes. It is now an attraction at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts.
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SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor
12/2/2020
Before History Devolves into Mythology: 2020’s Best Books on World War II
Books assessing the culpability of ordinary Germans for Nazi crimes, the allied firebombing of Dresden, the battle for Okinawa, and the mind of Adolf Hitler are among the Monitor's choices for the year's best books on World War II.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/2/2020
Revisiting Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker
The use of the German film "Downfall" in internet memes points to the danger of treating Hitler's demise as a closure to the murderous ideologies he propagated.
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SOURCE: NPR
12/7/2020
'Trying To Prove Something:' A WWII Vet Remembers His All-Black Battalion
WWII veteran Robert Madison remembers both the segregation of the military and moments of recognition by white officers of his cohort's service.
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12/6/2020
Recognizing an Unrecognized Chinese American WWII Veteran
by A.J. Wong
In December, Congress honored all Chinese American World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal, and some of their families will be eligible to receive a replica medal in their names. Hoy You Lim (林開祐) was killed in action in France in 1944. None of his survivors could complete the paperwork to receive his medal. The granddaughter of another Chinese American veteran wants to recognize his service.
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12/6/2020
Is There Anything Left to Learn about Hitler?
by James Thornton Harris
Volker Ullrich presents a picture of a leader whose "egocentrism... inability to self-criticize…tendency to overestimate himself... contempt for others and lack of empathy" made him willing to destroy his nation along with himself, but warns that the Third Reich was "a dictatorship of consent."
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/3/2020
He Escaped Death as a Kamikaze Pilot. 70 Years Later, He Told His Story.
"As the generation who lived through the war fades away, Japan’s opposing political sides are vying to reinterpret the kamikaze for a public still divided over the conflict’s legacy."
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SOURCE: New Statesman
12/2/2020
What The Hitler Conspiracies Mean
by Richard J. Evans
Against evidence and common sense, theories persist that Adolf Hitler escaped Berlin to live in Argentina. An expert on the memory of the Third Reich argues that the conspiracy theories reflect a broad rejection of expertise and show the need for historians to engage the public.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
11/16/2020
Can We Hold Trump And His Allies Accountable Without Further Splitting America?
by Samuel Huneke
A process of accountability must target official decisionmakers who broke the law, avoid imposing collective guilt on Trump supporters, and above all, not expect quick or complete success.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/10/2020
How the World Gave Up on the Stateless (Review)
Over 10 million people are stateless today, and governments seem hell-bent on increasing their numbers. A new book examines how the rise of modern states created the dire circumstance of statelessness.
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11/8/2020
How Two French Introverts Quietly Fought the Nazis
by Jeffrey H. Jackson
Two introverted French Lesbian artists conducted a campaign of subversion against the Nazis occupying the Island of Jersey that a trial judge called "more dangerous than soldiers." A new book explains how.
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