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Paintings by Renoir and Sisley have been restituted to the beneficiaries of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell the works in 1941.

Joan Myers’s work in the Battle of Britain has been commemorated in an exhibition at the RAF Museum. Her neice Lucy Daltroff is kvelling

“Filmmakers for the Prosecution” tells the story of how a scion of Hollywood made a documentary film about the Nazi atrocities that was banned by the U.S. Army.

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VE-Day marks Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender in WW2. Russia celebrates it on May 9. Increasingly, President Vladimir Putin has used the day to serve his own domestic purposes.

VE-Day marks Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender in WW2. Russia celebrates it on May 9 and many fear Vladimir Putin may use the opportunity to mobilize his country for all out war.

This Soviet Tank Made Panzers Look Like Glass Cannons The T-34 was very solid and could be mass-produced in the thousands. Germany did not have an equivalent. Key Point: Hitler lamented his decision to invade the vast Soviet Union, but it was too late to reverse his course. In 1942, careworn Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler lamented to his military intimates at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia, “If I had known that there were so many of them, I would have had second t...

The Sad Story of Winston Churchill, FDR, And The Cossacks Said one observer: "The Cossacks in German field gray who disappeared into the NKVD labor camps in 1945 took with them the remnants of a unique way of life. It will never again be resurrected." Here is What You Need to Remember: Most Cossack senior officers were tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and executed. The remainder were imprisoned for long terms.  An estimated four million Red Army soldiers were captured by the Germans duri...

Why Did Churchill Betray the Cossacks in World War II? At Yalta, Churchill agreed to turn over to Stalin all captured Soviet Cossacks that had been on the German side. Surely he knew what that meant. Heres What You Need to Know: An estimated four million Red Army soldiers were captured by the Germans during the six months after the launching of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. Indeed, the chief of the German General Staff, Colonel General Franz H...

World War II History: How the Soviets Failed at "Operation Gallop" The combination of Soviet ambition and von Manstein’s brilliant handling of the battle culminated in a bloody defeat for the Red Army. The stage was now set for one of von Manstein’s greatest accomplishments—the recapture of Kharkov—which would take place in mid-March. As Adolf Hitler’s vaunted Sixth Army lay in its death throes in the ruins of Stalingrad, German forces to the west of the city faced their own kind of h...