World War II

...Democrats, Erika Steinbach. Dubbed "a red rag for Warsaw" by a leading German magazine, Steinbach has become a touchstone for Berlin's efforts to heal the wounds left by World War Two, notably with Poland. A campaigner for Germans forced...

In this article: Erika Steinbach, Angela Merkel, Poland, Germany, CDU, FDP, Richard Williamson, World War Two, and Luftwaffe

Diary reveals Great Escape plot Ted Nestor's WWII diary is full of cartoons, diagrams and stories of his time in Stalag Luft III. The airman drew a map showing where he was shot down in Germany, his route to the camp in Poland and his...

In this article: The Great Escape, Poland, Howard Bailey, BBC One, Stirling bomber, and RAF

...to promotions and stations to combat and post battle. Viewers feel WWII as the twelve experienced conflict and the emotions that come with pain, suffering, victory, and defeat. Interestingly, the footage of life in the United States...

In this article: World War I, Guadalcanal, FDR, United States, Pearl Harbor, Sugar, Ron Livingston, and Richard Tregaskis

...Union. It was May 1990 and the river Oder, which formed the border between East Germany and Poland in the fourth decade after World War II, had been transformed by the events of November 1989 into the line that separated the wealth...

In this article: Michael Goldfarb, European Union, Europe, Washington, and Palestinian food

...on Thursday and lives in Hillcrest. On June 22, 1941, he was serving in Western Ukraine when German dictator Adolf Hitler broke the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of World War II and launched an invasion. Sobko saw German air raids and met...

In this article: United States, San Diego, Inchon, Veterans Day, and Adolf Hitler

...Love's steering committee. "It's a great project. She's the only person of her kind. " "Many countries were destroyed in World War Two," said Mohr. "Obviously, Germany and Poland among them. But in many ways, Russia was hit the hardest.

In this article: Russia, Kalamazoo, Bread, and Western Michigan University

...nations in facing up to the legacy of their repressive states. "The federal republic was certainly faster and more thorough in coming to terms with the secret police's crimes than Poland and even West Germany after World War II," he said.

In this article: Berlin, Angela Merkel, Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, Social Democrats, Unemployment, Climate change, and Styrofoam

...Afghanistan and Somalia. But their inventor, a World War II veteran, has barely profited financially from them and lives modestly in Izhevsk, an industrial town 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) east of Moscow. Part of the problem, according...

In this article: Mikhail Kalashnikov, Ak-47, Moscow, International Space Station, The St. Petersburg Times, Yury Gagarin, Joseph Stalin, and Dmitry Medvedev

...with it," said Klaus's office. Two weeks ago, Klaus asked for an exemption from the treaty that would prevent ethnic Germans forced out of his country after World War II from claiming back their property. Britain and Poland won similar...

In this article: European Union, Vaclav Klaus, Poland, Jose Manuel Barroso, Brussels, and Britain