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• in Lifestyle
  Albert "Doc" Brown: Oldest Survivor of Bataan Death March Dies at 105
  Oldest living survivor of the Bataan Death March dies at the age of 105.
  by abi3L / on Aug 16, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  A History of ‘Fashionable’ Antisemitism at the House of Dior
  Galliano could be sentenced up to six months in prison with a fine totalling €22,500.
  by msniw / on Mar 2, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “world war 2”

 

• The Last Brit On The River Kwai

  
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  Rail of horror: More than 16,000 prisoners of war and an estimated 90,000 Asian labourers died during the construction of the jingle railroad from Bankok to Burma The Last Brit On The River Kwai: Reg Twigg, One Of The Few Remaining Survivors Of The Death Railway, Died Last Week - But The Story He Left Behind Will ...
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• The Auschwitz Plaques and the 6 Million Myth

  
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  See that photo above? It’s a photo of a plaque that used to be at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland. The plans to open a museum and memorial at Auschwitz began almost immediately after the end of World War II. An act creating the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was passed by the Poles in 1947 and later ...
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• Culpable negligence

  
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  Household insurance at Redfellow Hovel requires three locks on the rear doors to the garden. After all, that’s the weaker, less observed point of access. So very reasonable stuff. In another context Malcolm found himself reviewing how Éire coped with the outbreak of World War II. That’s a far bigger topic ...
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• Yasukuni Shrine: My Grandfather Died For This Country

  
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  Yasukuni Shrine, located in the centre of Tokyo is undeniably beautiful and rather serene, at least from the outside. Why then, does this place of quiet worship enrage so many in northeast Asia whenever Japanese dignitaries visit the shrine? What is it about Yasukuni that causes South Korea to cancel its foreign ...
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• Huge success – ongoing – of Wester Ross WWII and Arctic Convoys week

  
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  The Loch Ewe Russian Arctic Convoy Museum project is delivering a serious success in its WWII and Arctic Convoys Week programme, a focus of intense interest. Audiences have been packed, way beyond anything expected and with many arriving at least half an hour early to be sure of a seat. They have come – not ...
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• Today is V.E. Day

  
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  Today is V.E. Day, the day we celebrate the victory of the Allied powers over Nazi Germany which ended the Second World War. The history of the end of the Second World War: the fight for Berlin, the last days in Hitlers bunker and the subsequent chaos make for interesting study but the real sentiment should be relief ...
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• Wolfenstein: The New Order announced

  
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  Due to be released later this year Wolfenstein: The New Order is a “re-imagining” of the well known and loved Wolfenstein series currently being put together by Machine Games and published by Bethesda. Machine Games being a development house founded by former employees of Starbreeze Studios, the team behind ...
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• The Only Good Nazi is… this Guy’s Father?

  
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  Father-son relationships are interesting things to be sure. There’s not much that would make me throw my Dad under the bus. I think being a leader in the slaughter of millions would be an exception to that. Apparently not for this man, Horst von Wachter whose father Otto von Wachter was that leader. Financial [...]
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• British cryptographic hacking from WW2 - how well would *you* have done?

  
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  If you were taken prisoner and wanted to send messages home under your captors noses, what would you do?Find out how a Royal Navy officer did just that during WW2, and have a go yourself at hiding a secret message in an innocent-sounding letter home!
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• Rise and Shiny: Heroes and Generals

  
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  Filed under: Betas , Historical , Real-Life , Video , Game Mechanics , New Titles , Previews , PvP , Opinion , War , Free-to-Play , Hands-On , MMOFPS , Humor , Rise and Shiny , Livestream Heroes and Generals is a new browser-based game set in the wonderfully bright and shiny world of... World ...
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• A Horse Named Sgt. Reckless

  
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  This is the story of Sgt. Reckless - a Mongolian mare purchased by a Marine Corps lieutenant for $250 during the Korean War. Read More
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• Beck opposes Hitler on Czechoslovakia

  
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  5th May 1938 Generaloberst Ludwig Beck has submitted a memo to Hitler stating his opposition to Fall Grun (Case Green), Hitler’s code name for a general invasion of Czechoslovakia. Generaloberst Ludwig Beck Beck isn’t opposed to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, but has serious doubts as to Germany’s ...
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• Seeking displaced persons

  
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  I have posted this story on Facebook and Cowbird and now, here. I am hoping that somewhere, in all this social media, someone will recognize a name or a face and I can made a connection. Please feel free to share this story on your Facebook account or your blog. The more who read it, the better. Shortly after WWII ...
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• Puerto Princesa City Tour: Palawan Special Battalion World War 2 Museum

  
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  World War 2 was the biggest, most expensive, most widespread, and deadliest major conflict the world has ever encountered. It spanned 30 different countries and was fought by 100 million people who served on both the Allied and the Axis alliances. The war was marked with mass deaths of civilians; development of new ...
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• Is It Good? Miss Fury #2 Review

  
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  This comic and me didn’t get off to a good start last issue. So why am I back? Well I have read comics that started off bad at first but completely turned around on the second issue. So maybe this comic will be like that: It could be great! Still, before it even gets to “great” levels, is it good? Miss ...
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• As Holocaust Museum Turns 20, Ranks of Survivors Dwindle

  
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  WASHINGTON — The adult survivors of the Holocaust are mostly gone now, and those who survived as children — and were old enough at the time to remember their ordeals — are now in their 70s and 80s. It won’t be long before no eyewitnesses remain. That’s why, as the  U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum  marks ...
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• The Bletchley Circle: Women Sleuths, post WWII

  
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  One of the joys of our craft are the discoveries we make while doing research. I love it when I find a poison I’ve yet to write about, or some sort of technology that is cutting edge spyware. I also love it when I uncover some historical tidbit that puts the heroines we write about Read more...
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• Rise and Shiny: War Thunder

  
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  Filed under: Betas , Historical , Real-Life , Video , Game Mechanics , Previews , PvP , Opinion , War , Free-to-Play , Hands-On , Casual , Humor , First Impressions , Rise and Shiny , Livestream War Thunder , a new instanced-based WWII flying battle, uhm, thingy , didnt really seem that ...
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• Critique - "The Imposter Bride" by Nancy Richler

  
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  The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richter documents the life of a young Polish woman who steals a dead woman’s ID during the Second World War and uses it to come to Canada as a mail-order bride of sorts. In Montreal, Lily marries her betrothed’s brother, has a child and flees, leaving the child behind. As fate would ...
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• Saturday 27th April 2013 ‘Talking World War 2’ (117/365)

  
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  Today I took Big Bird over to my grandparents house so they could talk to her about World War 2 because she is covering it at school. They had lots of stories to tell and we were both interested. Its sad to think in 30-40 years time all the stories of the war will ......Continue reading Saturday 27th April 2013 ...
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