Long-debated story of WWII U-boat attack on North Carolina finally gets its due

The tanker Dixie Arrow was among the ships targeted by German U-boats off North Carolina in WWII. It was hit by a U-boat ...
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Marthe Cohn—undercover Jewish spy in Nazi Germany during World War II—to speak on campus Sept. 18

Free tickets are available to hear Cohn’s first-hand account of how she lived through one of the worst times in human history—losing family members to the Nazis and surviving by spying for the French ...
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Westerplatte: The tiny Polish garrison that defied Hitler’s first assault of World War II

On September 1, 1939, the opening shots of World War II thundered across the Baltic coast as the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarded the Polish military depot at Westerplatte near the Free ...
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18 Americans held back Hitler’s World War II offensive

On December 16, 1944, eighteen American soldiers stood alone against 500 German paratroopers during the opening hours of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Led by 20-year-old Lieutenant Lyle Bou ...
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What is D-Day? How the Normandy landings led to Germany’s defeat in World War II

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...

The Real-Life Story Behind ‘Nuremberg’ And Psychiatrist Douglas Kelley

The post-World War II film "Nuremberg," starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, arrived on Netflix this weekend. Here’s what to know about the real-life psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and the Nuremberg ...
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Germany unveils memorial to Polish victims of World War II in Berlin

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a ...