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The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
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USA, Israel and Germany
A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...
Holocaust Survivor to Return German Award Over Far-Right Role in Parliamentary Vote
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the ...
Putin says ignoring Soviet role in liberation of Nazi death camps is shameful
Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington ...
France 24 on MSN9d
The liberation of Auschwitz: What the Soviets discovered on January 27, 1945
Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
(AP Photo, File) A group of Jews, including a small boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, ...
Holocaust survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while ...
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The Last U.S. Bomber Over Germany: A WW2 Story
On April 21, 1945, the B-24 Liberator "Black Cat" embarked on its final mission, only to be shot down near Regensburg, ...
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Retreating West - The German Army 1945 Then and Now
A German Opel Blitz truck heads west through the Czech town of Poděbrady in early May 1945 to escape from the advancing Soviet Army. 'There is going to be shock and awe with executive orders ...
Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation
The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former ...
At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
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Somerville airman killed in WWII officially accounted for nearly 80 years after plane shot down over Germany
Lord was 28 and served as a gunner aboard an A-26B “Invader” on a bombing mission to Dülmen, Germany, in March 1945 when it was hit by heavy anti-aircraft fire and crashed, according to the ...