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March 6th, 1944. Twenty-three thousand feet over Germany. A B-17 Flying Fortress faced twelve Messerschmitt Bf 109s. In the ...

EADaily, October 30th, 2025. Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with the phrase: "Geography is a sentence." If this is true, then ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - October 1945 births that made an impression. “My father passed out right there in the hall,” said Janice, recalling the moment their dad learned he had triplets. Known as the Elliot ...

Think Berlin Gedachtniskirche (with an umlaut); in English, the “Memory Church,” a ruin of a once beautiful church in ...

The war was ending, but the fighting on the Eastern Front was at its most desperate. Germany's formidable Panther—arguably ...

Eighty years ago, on Oct 27 1945, the cream of London’s orchestral players gathered together in Kingsway Hall for the first ...

FOR nearly two years, Germany’s Palestine solidarity movement has been subjected to intense repression. Above all, the ...

Today, countries are unwilling to extradite their leaders to international courts and many prefer to settle the scores on ...

Those sentenced to be hanged were: Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm von Keitel, Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred ...

This is an era of Mutually Assured Economic Destruction as well as Mutual Assured (Nuclear) Destruction. But there is another ...

Sven Helbig’s Requiem A performed at Dresden Kreuzkirche in February 2025 - Oliver Killig Sven Helbig is one of the most innovative musical exports to come out of Germany since Kraftwerk. A ...