Tag: World War II

Residents of an apartment building pass posters of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in the hallway as they enter an apartment Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, in the Queens borough of New York.

German police searching for suspects after top Nazi official’s grave dug up

Tim Pearce · December 17, 2019 10:34 pm

Infantrymen of the 7th US, Infantry Division dig in for an attack in snowdrifts near Amonies (Belgium) January 4, 1945 during the 'Battle of the Bulge'. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty images)

National Security

‘Perspective of the German’: Army posted photo of Nazi to commemorate Battle of the Bulge

Russ Read · December 17, 2019 6:05 pm

Discovery of WWII-era bomb prompts largest peacetime evacuation in Italian history

Zach Halaschak · December 17, 2019 4:00 am

Magazine - Your Land

Congress salutes a 100-year-old patriot

Tom Rogan · December 13, 2019 4:00 am

‘I was waiting for you’: Lovers separated in Auschwitz reunited after 72 years

Ellie Bufkin · December 8, 2019 11:04 pm

‘Just remember’: Final veteran to be interred on USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor

Ellie Bufkin · December 7, 2019 6:14 pm

An oversized urn covered with a black plastic wrap placed by the artist group 'Center for Political Beauty" in front of German parliament building, the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. An activist group has apologized to Jewish groups who expressed outrage at an urn placed in front of the German parliament that the activists claim contains Holocaust victims' remains. The Center for Political Beauty said late Wednesday they had not intended to hurt the feelings of Holocaust survivors and their descendants when they placed the urn in front of Reichstag building Monday.

Activist group forced to apologize after using remains of Holocaust victims in political stunt

Zach Halaschak · December 5, 2019 1:38 pm

Visitors walk through the entrance gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005, a day before the commemorations of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp by Soviet troops will take place on Jan. 27, 2005. The writing reads: Work will set you free.

‘Disturbing and disrespectful’: Amazon removes Auschwitz Christmas ornaments after blowback

Zach Halaschak · December 2, 2019 1:16 pm

FILE - This Sept. 27, 2012 file picture shows an exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house , front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Austrian authorities say the house where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 will become a police precinct, ending years of uncertainty over the building that's become a pilgrimage site for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.

Hitler birthplace to become police station after fears it could be Nazi shrine

Zach Halaschak · November 20, 2019 2:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Go see Midway this weekend

Tom Rogan · November 14, 2019 5:31 pm

Beltway Confidential

Midway's dialogue sinks terrific cast

Tyler Grant · November 11, 2019 5:19 pm

Veteran Patrick Watson places a wreath at the base of a new Mural Arts Philadelphia piece titled "American Tableau" at the Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

National Security

'There isn't a city around that doesn't celebrate': How a Kansas shoe salesman created a holiday to honor all veterans

Russ Read · November 11, 2019 10:21 am