World War 2

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's Plight of Appeasement

  by Adrian Phillips

  The history of appeasement is intertwined with the history of Churchill.

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• 11/12/19
  

  The Battle of Midway Movie is Mostly Terrific

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Despite its drawbacks, Midway is a rip-roaring military saga and a testament to the men who won it.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/10/19
  

  Navy Submarine, Missing for 75 Years, Is Found Off Okinawa

  Private explorers found the U.S.S. Grayback beneath 1,400 feet of water after realizing that a mistranslated Japanese war record had pointed searchers in the wrong direction.    

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• SOURCE: The First News
  November 9, 2019
  

  Historians unearth the lost secrets of Hitler’s Wolf Lair fruit and veg plot

  by Alex Webber

  A team of local historians unearthed the remains of a garden and greenhouse complex once used to grow vegetables destined for the Fuhrer’s dining table.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  11/6/19
  

  How Codebreakers Helped Secure U.S. Victory in the Battle of Midway

  Advance intelligence helped the Allies turn the tables on Japan in this crucial World War II naval battle.

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• 11/3/19
  

  The Age of the Commando: How a Group of WWII Heroes Rewrote the Rules of War

  by Saul David

  The history behind today's Special Operations Forces. 

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• 11/3/19
  

  Churchill and Stalin: Comrades-in-Arms during World War Two

  by Geoffrey Roberts

  Neither the formation of what Churchill later called the Grand Alliance nor its collapse was inevitable. The Grand Alliance was willed into existence by its leaders and then sustained through four years of total war. It was one the most successful alliances in history. 

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• 10/15/19
  

  Love in Post World War II Paris

  by Bruce Chadwick

  An American in Paris is a complicated story of a man who loves a woman.

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• ‘Return to the Reich’ Review: Refugee Redux

  The true story of a Jewish boy from Freiburg who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/10/12
  

  Trump Says the Kurds ‘Didn’t Help’ at Normandy. Here’s the History.

  Kurds may not have been present at the D-Day landings, but there is evidence some fought for the Allies during World War II.

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• 10/13/19
  

  International Resistance in World War 2 Europe

  by Olivier Wieviorka

  While national histories of wartime resistance are plentiful, the European dimension of the shadow army has rarely been taken into account.

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• 10/13/19
  

  The Moral Compass of America’s Most Distinguished Soldier and Statesman

  by James Thornton Harris

  George Marshall’s honesty and modesty were a key to his success.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

  by Susan Neiman

  Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/3/19
  

  World War II Launched a New Age of Global Power. 80 Years After the War Began, That Era Is Ending

  by David Kaiser

  The world order created after World War II has begun to collapse. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/1/19
  

  In Poland, Where History Is a Weapon, Leaders Commemorate World War II

  The event served to underscore the divisions in Europe and within Poland itself.

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• SOURCE: Arc Digital
  8/28/19
  

  World War II Didn’t Begin in 1939. It Began in 1936 — In Spain.

  by Paul Richard Huard

  Revisiting world history might be one way to break Spain’s national silence about its civil war.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/25/19
  

  The Weaponization of History

  by Wilfred M. McClay

  Ignorantly invoking slavery or the Holocaust is an affront to those who seriously study the past.

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• 8/28/19
  

  The Rabbi, the Telegram, and the Holocaust

  by Rafael Medoff

  Seventy-seven years ago today, a telegram bearing a horrifying and unforgettable message reached America’s foremost Jewish leader. It revealed the first comprehensive details about the systematic mass murder that would come to be known as the Holocaust

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• SOURCE: AP
  8/25/19
  

  Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years on

  Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of kissing, dancing, tears and gratitude.