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The National Interest on MSN5d
82 Years Ago, the Soviet Union Shattered the Nazi Empire at Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.
Why the Nazis stole a fragment of the Bayeux tapestry
The Nazis’ obsession with European art should be understood as central to Hitler’s genocidal regime and its efforts toward global domination.
Reading Eagle on MSN1d
Letter: Lessons learned from trip to a Nazi death camp
My son and his friends recently visited Oswiecim, Poland, where the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is located. The town is a quiet, ordinary community, with playgrounds and nice neighbors … but at ...
DPA International on MSN2d
Anger at WWII exhibition on Polish soldiers from Gdansk
A World War II exhibition about Polish soldiers forcibly recruited into the Nazi armed forces has triggered strong reactions ...
Polish prosecutors investigate far-right lawmaker for comments on Auschwitz
Polish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation after a far-right lawmaker described the gas chambers at the ...
The Forward on MSN5d
In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish ...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum2d
Museum Condemns Desecration of Holocaust Memorial Site in Poland, Attack on Jews Commemorating Jedwabne Massacre
The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...