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World War II
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Pearl Harbor, 70 Years Later: A Look Back at TIME’s Coverage
The day after Japanese pilots attacked the U.S. Naval installation at Pearl Harbor, an angered, determined President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”
But a week later, TIME editors …
World War II Events, Tweeted as They Happened
A graduate student at Oxford will be spending the next six years chronicling the day-by-day events of 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.