February 15, 2019 Vice president Pence honors Holocaust victims in 1st visit to Auschwitz Vice President Mike Pence paid a solemn visit Friday to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland where more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, lost their lives in the Holocaust.
February 14, 2019 Top UK left-wing politician calls Winston Churchill a ‘villain,’ sparks firestorm A top British left-wing politician has spared a political backlash after describing former Prime Minister Winston Churchill as a “villain” -- a comment he later backtracked on after coming under heavy criticism.
February 12, 2019 Wreck of WWII aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered in the South Pacific The wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) has been discovered off the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen.
February 8, 2019 German auction house pulls Adolf Hitler artworks days before sale A German auction house has been forced to pull several paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler just days before they were due to be put up for sale.
February 5, 2019 Child takes live World War II-era explosive for show-and-tell Show-and-tell at a British school could have ended very wrongly after a student unknowingly took a live explosive device to show off to his classmates – and had to be detonated by a military bomb squad.
February 5, 2019 Hitler's drawings, watercolors go on sale in Germany; draws interest from Iranian, Chinese buyers Auktionhaus Weidler in Nuremberg, Germany, is auctioning 31 drawings and watercolor landscapes of rural Germany attributed to Adolf Hitler.
January 30, 2019 Former Nazi death squad leader guilty of massacring French village under investigation for hate speech A 96-year-old former Nazi SS junior squad leader is being investigated in Germany over his involvement of in the massacre of 86 French men and boys in a French village in 1944.
January 27, 2019 Auschwitz historians painstakingly work to preserve personal belongings of the victims to keep 'memory of their owners alive' Survivors and dignitaries are assembling Sunday at Auschwitz-Birkenau to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp where more than 1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.
January 26, 2019 Man finds ‘authentic WWII hand grenade’ while magnet fishing in Florida: police Authorities in Florida were notified about a hand grenade that was discovered by a man while he was magnet fishing, police said Saturday.
January 15, 2019 How a Holocaust survivor narrowly escaped the Nazis — twice At 5-foot-11, Dave Hersch weighed just 77 pounds. The 19-year-old from Dej, Hungary, had been whipped, starved and forced to move 50-pound rocks for a dozen hours per day, all at the hands of the Nazis.
