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Ashes of 8,000 WWII victims found in two Poland mass graves

Special investigators in Poland say they have found mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles slain by Nazi Germans during World War II in forest executions

The Independent UK

Abe’s Nationalism Is His Most Toxic Legacy

U.S. elites were happy to overlook the late Japanese prime minister’s historical revisionism.

Foreign Policy

Congress salutes last WWII Medal of Honor recipient

Congress is giving its ultimate salute to Hershel W

The Independent UK

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Decrying Nazism – even when it's not there – has been Russia's 'Invade country for free' card

Oleg Morozov, a member of the Russian parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin’s, made what sounded much like a threat in May 2022.

The Conversation

Company of Heroes 3 Campaign Interview: The Myth of North Africa

We had a chat with Company of Heroes 3’s devs about the upcoming game's second single-player campaign.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Editorial: Shinzo Abe’s assassination was an extraordinarily rare firearm fatality for Japan

With two shots from a homemade firearm, a disturbed individual cut down Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, as he campaigned for his political party ahead of parliamentary elections. During his second and longest stint as prime minister, from 2012 to 2020, Abe was a forceful world figure, taking up…

Tribune News Service

They were heroes who fought the Nazis and fled Russian tyranny. Their graves now lie desecrated - we won't forget them

They helped secure the freedoms we all enjoy today - but their stories of courage, loss and sacrifice mean nothing to the vandals who attack their final resting place

Manchester Evening News

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Netflix hit Stranger Things slammed for using Nazi prison and brutal asylum in new series

Netflix has used sites of past atrocities as locations or inspiration for its nostalgic hit show Stranger Things — including a plan to let fans book a themed cell in a former holocaust prison on Airbnb.

ABC News

Inside quarantine island home to Typhoid Mary where people are banned from visiting

It is illegal for people to visit North Brother Island without permission from New York City's authorities due to its ruinous state - but it remains a designated bird sanctuary

Daily Mirror

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting that shocks nation

TOKYO — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event Friday in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.

Tribune News Service

A Brief History Of The Dnepr MT-11 Sidecar Motorbike

Dnepr's origins came from building bikes during World War II, and the Ukrainian company shares a common ancestor with Ural in the short-lived BMW R71.

RideApart

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting that shocks nation

Tribune News Service

Amid conflict, Latvia leads Baltics in felling Soviet memorials

Momentum to remove Soviet monuments gathers pace during Russia’s war on Ukraine, but issue remains divisive.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting that shocks nation

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — Japan’s longest-serving premier and a figure of enduring influence — died after being shot at a campaign event Friday in an attack that shocked a nation where political violence and guns are rare.

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The Independent UK

Shinzo Abe, divisive, powerful former Japan PM, assassinated

Shinzo Abe, a divisive archconservative who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and remained a powerful and influential politician after leaving office, has died after being shot during a campaign speech

Tribune News Service

Ex-Japan leader Abe assassinated in shooting at campaign rally

Daily Mirror

Mars bar celebrates 90th birthday - and releases archive photos from last nine decades

The chocolate bar was created in Slough in 1932 - and over 30 billion Mars bars have been sold since then, even during World War II

Reason

The Quest for a Libertarian Island Paradise

Raymond B. Craib's new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government funded entirely by voluntary contributions.

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Miami Herald

Decades after WWII, Chinese-American vet gets Congressional Gold Medal for his Army service

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — More than 75 years after his service in World War II, a 98-year-old Chinese-American veteran in Deerfield Beach received a Congressional Gold Medal to honor his service to the United States.

Bangkok Post

Food as rebellion

'Eating food is our right. If our tongues aren't made of free will, it will be difficult to establish democracy. If we aren't allowed to eat our favourite food, how can we have desired politics?" said Asst Prof Chatichai Muksong, lecturer in history at Srinakharinwirot University, who has studied the…

The Independent UK

Germany: 101-year-old appeals conviction in Nazi guard case

A German court says that a 101-year-old man who was convicted last week as an accessory to murder for serving as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II has appealed

ABC News

Mount Isa's World War II underground hospital, air raid shelter celebrates 80-year anniversary

The bombing of Darwin triggered the construction of Australia's only underground hospital, and 80 years on the heritage-listed landmark has become a symbol of coming together during crisis and chaos.

The Independent UK

World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead

A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona

The Independent UK

World War II-era boat emerges from shrinking Lake Mead

A sunken boat dating back to World War II is the latest object to emerge from a shrinking reservoir that straddles Nevada and Arizona

WEKU

Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions.

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