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The Lost History of East Germany
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAt the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to...
'I'm a pretty lucky guy here.' Flying over Germany in World War II for $36 a week
The Repository via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoEighty-some years ago, thousands of men of unimaginable courage altered the direction of World War...
The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn 1939, Germany was on the rise, Czechoslovakia was occupied, and Britain made a seemingly minor...
Who is responsible for authoritarian takeover in Florida?
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs a Purple Heart combat infantry veteran of World War II and currently a resident of Florida, I...
Appeasing Putin Won't Work
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoChamberlain speaking to a crowd on his arrival at Heston Airport from Munich, where he had met Hitler, Mussolini, and Deladier to settle the question of...
Sex and computers: post-war Germany’s strange affair with Krautrock
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFrom rock ’n’ roll to jazz, blues and grunge, musical movements have often been born out of human...
Inside the former communist utopia about to become an EU Capital of Culture
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSitting in the penthouse bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking down at the bleak modern...
The right's "Red Caesar" plan: GOP's new order marches onward — only voters can stop it
Salon via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJulius Caesar Statue & The US Capitol Building Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images This article...
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Military Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoLt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian American from the farming town of Madison,...
Guest column: Holocaust fading from view in eyes of many, studies show
Gannett via AOL· 5 months agoOn Saturday, people around the globe observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the...