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These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If They Weren't Evacuated to New York After World War II
One Tuesday evening in the spring of 1925, some 30 Jewish scholars and activists met in the Eastern European city of Vilna to ...
Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...
80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers
A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 ...
80 years after World War II, Germany is still searching for its fallen soldiers
A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II ...
AP PHOTOS: 80 years after World War II, Germany is still searching for its fallen soldiers
In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, and then German ...
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Berlin still bears scars 80 years after pivotal battle that sealed the defeat of Nazi Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the ... German defenses in the final stage of World War II. “We all had a little case next to the bed, even the children ...
V-E Day tinged with some dread 80 years after World War II ended in Europe
Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day conflict as it celebrates the defeat ...