
Two books, diametrically opposed and written by two of the most famous figures of World War II, are both currently at the center of international legal battles – Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young
by Breitbart Jerusalem6 Jan 2016, 1:20 AM PST0

Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims to be held in detention camps.
by Ken Klukowski30 Dec 2015, 6:21 PM PST0

CNN reports: Jerusalem (CNN) – There were few, if any, victorious moments to share from Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds’ combat time in World War II. So he kept quiet. He told his son little of how his platoon, part of
by Breitbart Jerusalem22 Dec 2015, 3:45 AM PST0

Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor—one of the most stunning American military catastrophes in this country’s history and a moment that signaled a new era for the republic. The casualties were stunning—2,042 Americans were killed and 1,247 wounded, and most of the Pacific Fleet has taken heavy damage—and the nation was in a state of shock.
by Jarrett Stepman7 Dec 2015, 8:09 AM PST0

TEL AVIV – A renowned Saudi journalist said that extremist Islam is like Nazism and the only way to eliminate it is to combat its ideology, MEMRI reported. According to the journalist, imams, media personalities, and educators are more dangerous
by Deborah Danan6 Dec 2015, 6:31 AM PST0

An Israeli man and a Polish woman were reunited Wednesday in New York, seven decades after her Catholic family saved him during the Holocaust.
by Rebecca Mansour2 Dec 2015, 10:04 PM PST0

The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate. But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds (pictured) would have none of that.
by AP2 Dec 2015, 4:01 AM PST0

What should we do in the face of a relentless, and remorseless, enemy? The Roman Empire had a good answer. Yes, 2,000 years before Ronald Reagan summed up his Cold War strategy as, “We win, they lose,” the Romans had the same idea.
by James P. Pinkerton21 Nov 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

There are several reasons the Jewish and Syrian crises have little in common, and why opposition is different in the two cases
by Joel B. Pollak17 Nov 2015, 12:47 PM PST0

After 70 years, three U.S. airmen are finally coming home from Malaysia for a proper burial and resting spot.
by Mary Chastain5 Nov 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown compared the “existential threat” of climate change to the fight against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
by Adelle Nazarian28 Oct 2015, 12:39 PM PST0

A Chinese campaign to have documents related to Japan’s use of wartime sex slaves and its bloody invasion of Nanjing recognised by Unesco has sparked a new round of diplomatic tension between Beijing and Tokyo.
by Breitbart News8 Oct 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

A lot has been written through the years about the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, of John F. Kennedy, and of many others, and about the numerous conspiracy theories that lurk in the shadows of the official narratives.
by Bill Yenne21 Sep 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

China is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Japan in World War II today, and what state outlet Xinhua calls the “Chinese People’s War Against Japanese Aggression” that happened alongside it. The nation has organized a massive parade featuring an international coalition of leftist allies.
by Frances Martel3 Sep 2015, 7:04 AM PST0

MECHANICVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Stephen Dennis enlisted in the Navy soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Less than a year later, the raw 19-year-old recruit was thrust into fighting off the Solomon Islands and survived one of the fiercest naval battles in the South Pacific.
by Breitbart News2 Sep 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

On August 27, Japan launched a new, Izumo-class helicopter carrier named the “Kaga” (DDH-184).
by Jarrett Stepman28 Aug 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), compared the Jewish people to Nazis in a press conference on official PA Television Sunday.
by Jordan Schachtel26 Aug 2015, 11:46 AM PST0

On August 22 an unidentified 55-year-old victim was riding atop a World War II-era “armored vehicle” when he fell off the front and landed right in the path of the vehicle’s treads. The man was run over by the vehicle
by AWR Hawkins23 Aug 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

In the Telegraph today there is an obituary of a splendid fellow named Lt-Col ‘Shufti’ Chaudhri who won an MC (Military Cross – Britain’s third highest gallantry award) fighting in the Italian Campaign in 1944. In the early hours of
by James Delingpole10 Aug 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

Seventy years ago, the B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Paul Tibbets, Jr., dropped an atomic bomb, Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
by Jarrett Stepman6 Aug 2015, 9:07 AM PST0

Moses Weisberg was walking his bicycle through the National Arboretum in Northeast Washington when he stopped at a mushroom-shaped tree. The first thing he noticed was the thickness of the trunk, estimated at almost a foot and a half in diameter. And then there was the abundance of spindly leaves, a healthy head of hair for a botanical relic 390 years old.
by Breitbart News4 Aug 2015, 7:25 AM PST0

Amazon Studios’ highly anticipated new series The Man in the High Castle–about what the world would look like if the Axis powers had won World War II–doesn’t premiere until November, but the show’s creative team offered up new details about the show at the Television Critics Association press tour on Monday.
by Daniel Nussbaum3 Aug 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

Today is the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the USS. Indianapolis, of one of the most terrible catastrophes in the history of the United States Navy. After completing a mission to deliver parts for the atomic bomb that would fall on Hiroshima, the battleship was struck by a torpedo from Japanese submarine I-58 en route to the Philippines.
by Jarrett Stepman30 Jul 2015, 10:15 AM PST0

Dover (UNITED KINGDOM) (AFP) – A hidden tunnel complex that formed Britain’s first line of defence in World War II opened to the public this week after six decades buried as a forgotten time capsule. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter
by Breitbart London27 Jul 2015, 5:23 AM PST0

PARIS (AP) — The remains of Jewish gas chamber victims subjected to Nazi anatomy experiments have been traced to a medical research facility in the western French city of Strasbourg.
by AP20 Jul 2015, 6:35 AM PST0