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8 votes
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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"Brilliant" plans to win WW2: How France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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The forgotten story of ... the France football captain who murdered for Hitler
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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August 6th, 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
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How WW2 made Spain do everything later
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At the 1948 Olympics in bombed-out London, a Dutch track star named Fanny Blankers-Koen forever changed women's sports
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Hiroshima (1946)
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The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
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K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
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When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
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The history of the US Army's 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the largest unit of black servicewomen to ever deploy overseas
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Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103
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Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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World War Two animated: Western Front 1940
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The hunt for the German battleship Tirpitz, '42-44
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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When business plans blow up: management lessons from WWII
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What's a good name for my open source, tactical WW2 FPS?
I’m going to be making an fully libre, tactical, co-op, WW2 FPS in the ioquake3 engine. I need an idea for a name. Anyone have ideas? It's going to be kind of like Day of Infamy, if you've ever...
I’m going to be making an fully libre, tactical, co-op, WW2 FPS in the ioquake3 engine. I need an idea for a name. Anyone have ideas?
It's going to be kind of like Day of Infamy, if you've ever played it. You're going to be working through the enemy's base (Axis or Allies, depending on which side you choose) with your friends, trying to complete an objective. You can either be stealthy, go guns blazing, or anywhere in between. There's also going to be TDM, where you either attack or defend against another team of players. I'm hoping to increase longevity by making it completely open source.
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Why Hitler lost the war: German strategic mistakes in WWII
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Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII
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The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank
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What Americans know about the Holocaust: Fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power
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US torpedo troubles during World War II
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Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway, 1940–1945 – Tony Insall
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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What if the nuke was never invented?
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The curious case of the US Government’s influence on 20th-century design
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Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
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'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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A WW II bunker under London's streets is now a vegetable farm
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From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square
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‘The day the wall came down’: How the Washington Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall thirty years ago
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How a cargo ship helped win WW2: The Liberty Ship story
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How did the US Navy win the Battle of Midway?
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The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
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Why are plastic army men still from WW2?
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Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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How Chagall’s daughter smuggled his work out of Nazi-occupied Europe
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor
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Andrey Fedorov – Yeltsin considered selling ceded Karelia territory to Finland in 1991
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Would the German population more or less readily believe the Holocaust today as compared to 1945?
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government...
This is something I was thinking about. When I read about the end of the second world war, the thing which surprises me the most is how easily the German population accepted that their government really committed such atrocities (Yes, I used Holocaust in the title, but I mean any genocide commited).
I was wondering how it might go down in our current culture with the emergence of Fake News and alternative "facts"; our post-fact culture. Would they more readily dismiss it as a photoshopped image? Would the impact be mitigated by the meme-ification of genocide?
(To a mod: The title should say « more or less »)
12 votes