A graduate student at Oxford will be spending the next six years chronicling the day-by-day events of World War II.
World War II
Painting Stolen During World War II Seized from Florida Museum
Don’t blame the Nazis for a Tallahassee, Fla. museum losing a famed piece of artwork last week. Blame a Frenchman — though he was possibly working with the Nazis.
Either way, U.S. government agents seized the 500-year-old …
Letter From Spy Father on Hitler’s Stationery Lands at CIA Museum
A letter from a CIA agent in Germany at the end of World War II to his three-year-old son in America is one of the newest artifacts at the agency’s private museum, reports the Washington Post.
It’s War! Battle Erupts Over Poster Phrase ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’
A fiery legal fight has broken out in the U.K. over the trademark for the slogan “keep calm and carry on” — the helpful advice of the British Government during World War II.
Study: Binge Drinking Is on the Rise Among Women
The ladies of the Jersey Shore aren’t the only females partaking in nights of endless drinking and debauchery.
New Biography Claims Coco Chanel Was a Nazi Spy
A new book says that Coco Chanel, in addition to running one of the world’s most influential fashion empires, also spied for the Nazis.
New Book: Allies Hoped to Topple Hitler With Hormones
Plan A: Operation Valkyrie. Plan B: Make the Führer a fraulein.
Hitler’s Family Portraits: Paintings of Parents Could Fetch $100,000 at Auction
Two sought-after oil paintings that depict Adolf Hitler’s parents, Klara and Alois, have surfaced in Orange County, Calif.
New Book Claims Hitler Gave Sex Dolls to Nazi Soldiers
A new book reveals that Adolf Hitler ordered the manufacture of Aryan blow up dolls to discourage his troops from sleeping with disease-ridden prostitutes.
D-Day Through the Archives: TIME’s Earliest Coverage of the Normandy Invasion
Today marks the 67th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. NewsFeed takes a look at TIME’s June 12, 1944, issue for its earliest coverage of the massive military effort to liberate …
How Nazi Scientists Tried to Create an Army of Talking Dogs
It’s further proof that Hitler was barking mad.
May Day: Both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1
Despite the jubilation (mostly) worldwide over the death of Osama bin Laden, the biggest enemy so far this century, it’s easy to forget the historic coincidence of the death of the biggest mass murderer of the previous century.
