World War II
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The Iron Curtain
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WWII Songstress Vera Lynn Dies at 103
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Hitler’s Rise to Reign of Terror
On January 30, 1933 Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Twelve years from his appointment Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany, but not before using his power to enact the “Final Solution”. The Final Solution is a benign sounding name for an unspeakably evil contemplation. This “solution” as Hitler and the Nazis called it, based on Nazi ideology, resulted in the horrific elimination of millions upon millions of innocent, human lives who were helpless to defend themselves. We must remember this atrocity, the Holocaust, lest we ever forget. “The genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and…
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73rd Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
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