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Brompton Road Station To Be Turned Into Flats

Ian Harvey

The station, which was used by Winston Churchill, was closed in 1934 because of the lack of passengers. It was used during the Second World…

Surprising Find in Lake Huron: Gold-Carrying Civil War-Era Streamer

December 9 brought about the announcement that the search for a Civil War-era streamer said to be shipwrecked in Lake Huron November 9, 1861 is…

Dutch Site Faces Legal Action for Selling Holocaust Victims’ Letters, Nazi Mementos

AMSTERDAM – A Dutch-based online selling site is auctioning off letters written by Holocaust victims while imprisoned in concentration camps. The seller, identified through the handle…

The Remains Of An American Soldier Returned To His Widow After 63 Years

Ian Harvey

Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt told his wife Clara she should remarry if he does not return from the war but she said she…

WWII and Holocaust are no joke: Committee protests against Kimmel’s anti-Polish ethnic putdowns

Siegphyl

The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress released an official letter in protest to the series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes which was used recently…

Last Surviving US Serviceman Aboard B-17 Bomber that Crash-landed on Beach at Burnham-on-Sea Dies in Delaware, USA

Ian Harvey

US Tech. Sgt. Walter C. Skinner was top turret-gunner aboard the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that crash-landed on the beach at Burnham-on-Sea on December 31,…

Mein Kampf: Hitler’s Book Permanently Banned in Bavaria

The German State of Bavaria has abandoned all plans to reprint Mein Kampf after it the legal power to place a ban on Adolf Hitlers…

World War ll M1 Garands

Ian Harvey

For those who had been there, the M1s available today are nothing like they used to be in WWII; it seems that the rifles once…

The successful design of Centurion Tank with upgrades for many decades

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) An MK3 Centurion Tank at Eastbourne, East Sussex on 12th January 2007 (2) An Israeli Centurion tank destroyed in…

RAAF Pilot Promoted To Flight Lieutenant after 70 years!

Ian Harvey

After he was shot down over Germany, Ken Wright had to spend three years in a prison camp, reason for which he never got the…

Filmmaker Klayman pays tribute to Soviet’s Night Witch in short film

Siegphyl

Alison Klayman, one of the “20 Directors to Watch” by New York Times film critics, created “The Night Witch” to pay tribute to a World…

Turkish Students Accused of Promoting the Nazi Salute at Auschwitz

The Global Jewish News Source (JTA) reports that two tourists, students, were detained by guards on duty at the Auschwitz museum. Why? Allegedly the students…