List of World War II articles
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UPA The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
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Asan Beach, Guam A World War II Marine looks back and wonders: Where’s the America of sharing?
I am now 91 years of age and it has been 70 long, wide years since I returned home on Christmas Eve, 1945.
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Nazi leader and war criminal Adolf Eichmann takes oath on May 5, 1961 during his trial in front of an Israeli Court in Jerusalem. He was sentenced to death and executed in Jerusalem on May 30, 1962. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) The Architect of the Holocaust Denied His Guilt Until His Dying Day
New letters released Wednesday show Adolf Eichmann's pleas for amnesty.
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German soldiers beside a tank during World War II (German Federal Archives via Wikimedia Commons). WWII query: Why did France surrender so quickly while Russia held out for years?
Best of Best Defense: Number 1 in our list of the most viewed posts of 2015. This post ran originally on June 2.
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Lee Yong-Soo (R), along with two other former South Korean "comfort women" Kim Bok-Dong (L) and Gil Won-Ok (C), voices criticism at talks with South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Lim Sung-Nam (not pictured) during his visit to a shelter for women, who were forcibly recruited to work in Japanese wartime military brothels, in Seoul on December 29, 2015. South Korean officials met with former "comfort women" to seek their support for a landmark deal with Japan, after criticism it does not properly atone for the treatment of women forced into WWII army brothels. AFP PHOTO / POOL / JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / POOL / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) The Wisdom of Japan’s Cunning Contrition
Questions for Jennifer Lind, an expert on apologies in international politics.
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GettyImages-531682747 What Foreign Policy Staff Read in 2015
FP staff share some of the best books they read in 2015.
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GettyImages-51668076 A Very Unscientific Inquiry Into the Etymology of the Phrase ‘Iron-Ass’
A theory on where former President George H.W. Bush discovered the phrase "iron-ass."
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A picture dated 1939 shows German Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler giving the nazi salute during a rally next to "Deputy Furhrer" Rudolf Hess. AFP PHOTO / FRANCE PRESSE VOIR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) A Lesson for Netanyahu From a Real Holocaust Historian
Bibi's self-serving, Palestinian-blaming version of Nazi history is just plain wrong.
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A flower is attached at a barbed wire fence at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during the 'March of the Living' at in Oswiecim, Poland on April 16, 2015. The annual march honours Holocaust victims at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in southern Poland. AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Auschwitz Probably Shouldn’t Have Installed Mist Showers for Tourists
To prevent panic among naked prisoners on their way to die, Nazi guards promised group showers. But after the steel doors closed, Zyklon B pellets would drop into the chambers, filling them with noxious fumes that spared no one.
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GettyImages-483961804crop Shinzo Abe Regrets but Declines to Apologize for Japan’s WWII Actions
The Japanese leader is trying to overhaul his country's constitution to allow for a more assertive military.
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kamikaze Does It Matter Whether Japan Says Sorry for Its Wartime Behavior?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is about to give a major speech on Japan’s World War II aggression. But in Tokyo, history is never really about history.
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