wwii
Plabennec (France) (AFP) - Aimee Dupre had always kept silent about the rape of her mother by two American soldiers after the Normandy landings in June 1944. But 80 years after the brutal assault, she finally felt it was time to speak out. Nearly a million US, British, Canadian and French soldiers landed on the Normandy coast in the weeks after D-Day in an operation that was to herald the end of Nazi Germany's grip on Europe. Aimee was 19, living in Montours, a village in Brittany, and delighted to see the "liberators" arrive, as was everybody around her. But then her joy evaporated. On the ev...
AFP
Greek army experts have defused 314 bombs in an underground storage room at the old Athens airport, which has been closed since 2001. As the Athens newspaper Kathimerini reported on Friday, citing experts from the landmine clearance battalion (TENX), the bombs dated back to World War II. They were stored 2 metres underground. "We are only alive by chance," Giannis Konstantatos, mayor of the region, said on Greek radio. Above and next to the storage area there were airport facilities for eight decades and, after its closure, schools, kindergartens and, during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, s...
DPA Breaking News
New York (AFP) - Martin Greenfield, a Holocaust survivor whose custom-suit empire counted US presidents and celebrities among its clientele, died on Wednesday aged 95, according to the New York Times. Widely considered one of the best tailors in the United States, Greenfield believed clothing had saved his life. Born Maximilian Grunfeld to a Jewish family from a part of Czechoslovakia that is now in Ukraine, he was imprisoned at Auschwitz as a teenager and tasked with washing the guards' clothes. After being beaten for accidentally ripping a Nazi's shirt, he mended it and wore it underneath ...
AFP
Thousands of people formed a human chain in Dresden on Tuesday evening to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. People joined hands at 6 pm (1700 GMT) and stood in silence as the city's church bells rang out. Participants were remembering the victims of the allied attack on Dresden on February 13, 1945, but also the victims of German bombs in 1940 in its English twin city Coventry. The human chain, which has been a tradition on this day of remembrance for over a decade, also commemorated the millions of victims of Nazi tyranny. Politicians and civ...
DPA International
Thousands of people formed a human chain in Dresden on Tuesday evening to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. People joined hands at 6 pm (1700 GMT) and stood in silence as the city's church bells rang out. Participants were remembering the victims of the allied attack on Dresden on February 13, 1945, but also the victims of German bombs in 1940 in its English twin city Coventry. The human chain, which has been a tradition on this day of remembrance for over a decade, also commemorated the millions of victims of Nazi tyranny. Politicians and civ...
DPA Breaking News
Thousands of people formed a human chain in Dresden on Tuesday evening to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. People joined hands at 6 pm (1700 GMT) and stood in silence as the city's church bells rang out. Participants were remembering the victims of the allied attack on Dresden on February 13, 1945, but also the victims of German bombs in 1940 in its English twin city Coventry. The human chain, which has been a tradition on this day of remembrance for over a decade, also commemorated the millions of victims of Nazi tyranny. Politicians and civ...
DPA
Numerous events are due to be held in Dresden on Tuesday to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. With the traditional human chain through the historic centre and across the river Elbe, politicians and society want to send a particularly strong signal for peace and democracy this year. A large number of protests against the appropriation of the anniversary by right-wing extremists have once again been announced, with the police saying they are prepared. At the exact time of the first attack on February 13, 1945, the bells of the city centre church...
DPA International
Numerous events are due to be held in Dresden on Tuesday to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. With the traditional human chain through the historic centre and across the river Elbe, politicians and society want to send a particularly strong signal for peace and democracy this year. A large number of protests against the appropriation of the anniversary by right-wing extremists have once again been announced, with the police saying they are prepared. At the exact time of the first attack on February 13, 1945, the bells of the city centre church...
DPA
Numerous events are due to be held in Dresden on Tuesday to commemorate the destruction of the eastern German city in World War II 79 years ago. With the traditional human chain through the historic centre and across the river Elbe, politicians and society want to send a particularly strong signal for peace and democracy this year. A large number of protests against the appropriation of the anniversary by right-wing extremists have once again been announced, with the police saying they are prepared. At the exact time of the first attack on February 13, 1945, the bells of the city centre church...
DPA Breaking News
Washington (AFP) - The last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, who secured guilty verdicts from 22 Nazis and dedicated his life to fighting international injustice, has died at age 103, his son told AFP Saturday. Benjamin Ferencz, an American who at age 27 and with no prior trial experience served as one of the trials' chief prosecutors, would go on to later battle for compensation and the return of stolen goods to victims and survivors of the Holocaust. He died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes Friday evening at an assisted living facility in Boynton Beach, Florida, his son ...
AFP
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら