Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...
The Times of Israel on MSN
‘From the river to the sea’ chant is antisemitic, says France’s human rights envoy
Speaking to The Times of Israel from Jaffa days after deadly Sydney shooting, Isabelle Lonvis-Rome says attacking Israel's ...
Open-source data and machine learning tools mean the challenge is not information scarcity but information overload ...
Army Times on MSN
Why Hitler declared war on the United States
When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed by the crisis in its war with the Soviet Union. On Dec. 1, 1941, after the serious defeat the Red Army ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSN
Astrid Lindgren's war diary chronicles WWII turmoil and hope
By Astrid Lindgren, Translated by Lee Myung-ah, Sigongsa, 640 pages, 32,000 Korean won** Last December, Han Kang, who visited ...
Research by German scholars lifts the lid on Third Reich officials’ lingering influence as a recovering country desperate for experienced administrators looked the other way ...
The actions of “Handschar” and its victims – The dissolution of the Division and its… inactive successor “Kama” – How many ...
The European Union has been shaken by Brexit, Donald Trump’s election in the United States, and now political uncertainty in Germany. But the future of the EU is also being written in Poland, Hungary, ...
A journey into Hitler’s hidden forest headquarters in Poland, where key World War II campaigns were directed and the legacy of Nazi power and violence lingers.
The National Interest on MSN
Christmas Eve, 1944: The Tank Duel That Broke Nazi Germany for Good
In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.
National Interest on MSN
In 1944, Three Americans and Four Germans Spent Christmas Together in Hell
A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.
Interesting Engineering on MSN
A WWII Christmas: How US forces battled 200,000 German troops, 1,000 tanks in 1944
On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers and about 1,000 tanks launched a surprise attack on ...
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