https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bullypulpitgames/night-witches - this company makes a computer game about the Night Witches regiment. I don't play computer games, but it's Night Witches - I went to read. ... and now I am thinking. Specifically, ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5445161/Russia-accuses-Poland-of-starting-Second-World-War.html

I really, really hope it's a local-level defense ministry fuckup.

Stories and photos of Albanian Muslims who sheltered Jews during WWII. I never knew Albania was the only European country where the Jewish population grew during that war.

Israeli professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, was killed at Virginia Tech while saving students' lives.

(link from ataniell93)

Simon Wiesenthal died at the age of 96. It's only fitting that he lived so long, I think, for he lived, remembered and fought for others who did not have this chance. He did not allow the world to forget the Holocaust and this is the reason he himself won't be forgotten ( Read more... )

61 year ago, on January 27, 1944, the blockade of Leningrad was finally taken down. The city withstood 900 days of being starved out and bombed, but it did not fall, even though for several months the daily amount of food allotted to ordinary citizens was 125 g of bad bread for a day. It's impossible to survive on that. Some people had more ( Read more... )