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December 16, 2019

Holocaust planner’s grave dug up, Berlin police say

Berlin authorities on Monday said the grave of a high-ranking Nazi official who helped plan the holocaust has been dug up.

December 16, 2019

Allies and former enemy Germany mark 75th anniversary of Battle of the Bulge

Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II — the Battle of the Bulge, which stopped Adolf Hitler's last-ditch offensive to turn the tide of the war.

December 16, 2019

Walter Borneman: Battle of the Bulge -- waged on victory's doorstep -- proved WWII wasn't over yet

What came to be called the Battle of the Bulge was the bloodiest single battle fought by U.S. troops during World War II.

December 15, 2019

The Battle of the Bulge: German deception and advanced weapons couldn't turn the tide of the war

The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front has become known as the "Battle of the Bulge" for the thrust into the Allied lines. For the Americans, this was to be the largest and bloodiest single engagement of the Second World War, and also the third deadliest campaign in American history. It began 75 years ago on Dec. 16, 1944, and while it caught the Allied forces off guard, in the end, the German Army failed to meet its objectives and the battle essentially exhausted the Germans of their resources.        

December 15, 2019

WWII bomb discovery prompts evacuation of 54,000 from southern Italy town

About 54,000 people were ordered to evacuate the southern Italy town of Brindisi Sunday as experts were called in to defuse a World War II bomb discovered last month at a movie theater that was under renovation, according to a report.

December 6, 2019

Germany's Angela Merkel visits Auschwitz for first time amid rising anti-Semitism

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, marking her first-ever visit to the notorious site in her 14 years as Germany’s leader.

December 6, 2019

Pearl Harbor shooting won't disrupt plans for annual commemoration of 1941 attack, memorial spokesman says

The 78th-anniversary commemoration of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will go on as planned Saturday, a spokesperson for the base said Thursday, one day after a sailor shot and killed two civilians and critically wounded a third before fatally shooting himself at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on Wednesday. 

December 4, 2019

Secret identity of fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic bomb secrets finally revealed

The name of a missing Soviet spy which was hidden from the public for the past 70 years has just been revealed.

December 1, 2019

WWII bomb forces 10,000 to evacuate Italian city

Over 10,000 thousand people were evacuated from the northwestern Italian city of Turin on Sunday as bomb experts worked together to defuse a 70-year-old World War Two bomb.

November 27, 2019

World War II vet, 99: 'I want young people today to know the history of what happened'

In an exclusive interview with "Fox & Friends First's" Jillian Mele, D-Day survivor and WWII veteran Ray Lambert said Wednesday that he hoped people would remember the battle on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.