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www.nationalww2museum.org
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| | Sometimes one runs into a story that, if it appeared in a novel, would stretch credulity. The following Jewish rescue story is not only true, but its protagonist, Wehrmacht Oberleutnant [1st Lt.] Albert Battel, was honored posthumously by Yad Vashem as "Righteous Among The Nations" in 1981. The Israeli lawyer and historian Zeev Goshen wrote...
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| | Since starting wwiiafterwwii, I receive from time to time suggestions for topics. These are wide-ranging but two in particular seem very popular: WWII weapons in the Vietnam War, which has been touched on several times; and a general question of how the world "cleaned up" WWII battlefields after the war. For the latter, I was...
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| | Masha Gessen on how the politics of memory of the Holocaust and antisemitism obscure what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
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| Note: I'm compiling a tribute post in honor of Alain Delon but in the meantime, I thought I'd share this piece that I originally wrote for Turner Classic Movies. Before Richard Matheson etched out a name for himself as a popular writer of horror and science fiction he dabbled in crime thrillers and mysteries. His...