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Putin hails Soviet army for ending 'total evil' of Auschwitz
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...
Auschwitz liberation at 80: Survivors, world leaders mark milestone
A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination ...
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Russia focuses on Soviet victims of WW2 as officials not invited to Auschwitz ceremony
On this day in 1944 Soviet forces broke the almost 900-day siege of Leningrad. Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp. Vladimir Putin, pictured next to ...
P-51 Mustang Vs Yak-9: How The Iconic Fighters Compare
The Yakovlev Yak-9 and North American P-51 Mustang are two of the most infamous fighters of the Second World War.
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Putin Hails Soviet Army’s Role in Auschwitz Liberation on 80th Anniversary
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Mondaypraised Soviet soldiers for ending the “total evil” of Auschwitz, 80 years after ...
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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‘Hell on Earth’: Who were the victims killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz?
The Roma Family Camp massacre was part of the broader Nazi genocide of Roma people, known in the Romani language as the ...
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission
Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they ...
Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
Auschwitz memorial holds observances on 80th anniversary of death camp’s liberation by Soviet troops
Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.