From artwork to champagne: Nazi plunder during WWII (1945)
Nazi plunder made Huns look like pickpockets
Looting told in indictment: Valuable books, art works carried off
By Graham Hovey
As plunderers and ... Read more...
WWII newspaper headlines from the D-Day invasion of France (1944)
France Invaded: Allied Troops Launch Mighty Offensive
Philadelphia Inquirer (Final) - June 6, 1944
We Crack West Wall, Secure Big Beac... Read more...
Albert Einstein dies (1955)
Einstein dies
Dr Albert Einstein, whose thinking changed the history of man, died today at Princeton, NJ.
The white-haired, world famous physici... Read more...
Victory in Europe Day (1945)
After six years of total warfare across Europe which saw cities and entire countries devastated, along with millions of soldiers and civilians killed,... Read more...
V-E Day Celebrations outside NYC (1945)
While throngs of people packed Times Square in New York to celebrate the end of the war in Europe, cities and towns across the United States all obser... Read more...
The bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
60 Percent of Jap City Blasted By Atom Bomb, Reports Show
Tokyo Broadcasts Admit All Living Things Seared To Death by New Weapon
Results of Ex... Read more...
The Battle of the Bulge wraps up (1945)
Yanks and British mop up big area on bank of Roer
Springboard made for attacks on Ruhr, Rhineland
by James M Long
Paris -- The American Ninth... Read more...
The Holocaust: IG Farben’s role at Auschwitz (1947)
There is no more sordid or cynical chapter in IG Farben’s entire ugly history than the story of the concentration camp it built and ran for itself.
Bogart & Bergman are superb in Casablanca (1943)
The superb acting and detail directing took us to the refugee city of Casablanca, and there we stayed, right by the warm sides of Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains. And we’re still there.
Early firsthand reports of Nazi concentration camps (1945)
Fabian said he was taken to Auschwitz 10 months ago with 500,000 other Hungarian Jews, and that 400,000 were gassed and cremated in the first two months, and that only 1,000 remained alive.
20 ways “The Sound of Music” got it wrong
How much does it differ from the truth, such as in the case of the von Trapp family, and the hugely-successful musical based on their lives, The Sound of Music?
350 killed in Japanese attack on Hawaii (1941)
Air raids on Hawaii & Manila throw US into World War
Striking with bomb and torpedo in the early morning dawn, Japan attacked the United States... Read more...
No, Mr Hitler! (1941)
No, Mr Hitler - you just don't talk our language!
This advertisement is one of a series studying our democratic American way of life
From across... Read more...
Behind-the-wall account of D-Day invasion (1944)
Behind-wall account of invasion
Writer tells Airborne troops' perilous job in D-Day success
by Leonard Mosely, representing the Combined Allied ... Read more...
