Black history month post: When Jazz Age Superstar Josephine Baker Spied on the Nazis

The African-American singer and dancer was the toast of Paris when French intelligence asked her to spy on the Axis. It became one of her greatest performances.


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(OP: Please note that the mention of 'India' in the text includes not only today's India, but also people from today's Pakistan and Bangladesh. Also important to the war effort in Europe were other groups such as the Nepalese (commonly known as Gurkhas).)

Does Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk ignore the role of the Indian army?


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'Portugal's Schindler' Is Remembered, Decades After His Lifesaving Deeds


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Mayor Wonders If We Need WWII-Style Internment Camps After Paris Attacks


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The UK is marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill. He is regarded by many as the greatest Briton ever, but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.

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Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest known Holocaust survivor and an expert pianist, died Sunday in London, her family said. She was 110.

"Much has been written about her, but to those of us who knew her best, she was our dear 'Gigi,'” her grandson, Ariel Sommer told Britain’s Press Association.

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It’s been almost 70 years, but Marsha Kreuzman still remembers the moment she laid outside the steps of a Nazi crematorium wishing she could die.

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Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.Turing was best known for developing the Bombe, a code-breaking machine that deciphered messages encoded by German machines. His work is considered by ( Read more... )