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If anyone hasn't seen Kayak's commercial making a joke out of the sacrifices of our soldiers on D-Day, the link is below. It disgusts me, and I finally decided to let the company know. I hope you will do the same. The commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RFoEn5EYJw Here's what I wrote to them on their "feedback" page: Hello Kayak, I just wanted you to know that after seeing your tasteless commercial featuring a man talking like a WW2 veteran about Cancun, I've decided that I will never, EVER use your site, and whenever any of my friends discuss taking or booking a trip,...

Here is a CNN video report that says Russian officials claim they burned the body of Adolf Hitler in 1970 and threw the ashes in an East German river. In newly released details, the Russians claim they buried the body of Hitler and his wife Eva Braun on an East German Base where they remained until 1970, when the Russians turned the base over to the East Germans. They did not trust the East Germans not to make a shrine out of the graves, so they dug the bodies up and disposed of them. That is the Russian version of...

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the U. S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in which thousands of Americans lost their lives and our naval fleet was severely damaged. The events of that day, which President Franklin Roosevelt vowed would “live in infamy,” proved for many Americans that aggressors would not simply ignore us if we ignored them. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched America into the Second World War, and our Greatest Generation did not hesitate when asked to sacrifice for their country. American men enlisted in droves, American women went...

Demjanjuk: I am also a victim of the Nazis By Assaf Uni MUNICH - At 11:10 A.M. local time yesterday, John (Ivan) Demjanjuk, accused of involvement in the murder of 27,900 Jews at the death camp Sobibor, was rolled in his wheelchair into Munich District Court. The first trial in Germany of an East European Nazi collaborator had begun. The courtroom had been filled for an hour before the session started, with reporters from around the world, attorneys and more than 20 relatives of the Dutch Jews who were killed at Sobibor during the time the indictment says Demjanjuk served...

Has anyone watched or heard anything about this DVD series...good, bad or indifferent? Thinking about purchasing it as a gift for my son but I'd like input from someone who has seen it first. Thanks in advance!

'When millions would have done anything to get out, one remarkable British soldier smuggled himself into Auschwitz to witness the horror so he could tell others the truth.'

Suspect in Nazi trial proud of his SS service By DAVID RISING (AP) – 9 hours ago AACHEN, Germany — A man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial Friday that he was proud about being chosen as a volunteer to fight for the Nazis. Heinrich Boere, 88, made his first comments to the Aachen state court since his trial opened at the end of October. As part of that SS unit, he is charged with killing a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian. He faces a possible...

After 60 years in a watery Hawaiian grave, two World War II-era Japanese attack submarines have been discovered near Pearl Harbor, marine archaeologists announced today. Specifically designed for a stealth attack on the U.S. East Coast--perhaps targeting Washington, D.C., and New York City--the "samurai subs" were fast, far-ranging, and in some cases carried folding-wing aircraft, according to Dik Daso, curator of modern military aircraft at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, speaking in the new National Geographic documentary Hunt for the Samurai Subs. When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. Navy seized the Japanese fleet in the Pacific,...

I've been recording and watching the 10 part series on WWII and I must say, it is very good. It's not all shooting and battles, instead, it conveys an incredible human perspective of the war. I'm amazed to learn how at our first two major battles we sort of abandoned our own men to their fate such as the men at Guadalcanal, absolutely facinating and terrifying at the same time. The war is told from the vantage point of 12 people (11 soldiers and 1 female nurse) and is very well done, had me choking back the tears many times....

86-year-old World War II veteran Joseph Robertson fought for the Allies at the Battle of the Bulge, Hitler’s last major offensive. Amidst fierce combat and harsh winter weather, both the Germans and the Allies suffered heavy casualties. But Mr. Robertson has never been able to forget one young soldier he killed there. In July 2005, he shared this memory with son-in-law John Fish, Jr. at a StoryCorps MobileBooth in Columbus, Ohio.

It's hard to envision -- or, for the dwindling few, to remember -- what the world looked like on Oct. 26, 1942, when a few thousand U.S. Marines stood essentially stranded on the God-forsaken jungle island of Guadalcanal, placed like a speed bump at the end of the long blue-water slot between New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, the most likely route for the Japanese Navy to take if they hoped to reach Australia. On Guadalcanal, the Marines struggled to complete an airfield. Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto knew what that meant. No effort would be spared to dislodge these upstart...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. – Willard Varnell Oliver, a member of the Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, died Wednesday. He was 88. ... Oliver was part of an elite group of Navajo Marines who confused the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in Navajo. The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. Their work was declassified in 1968. Oliver, who grew up between Shiprock and Farmington, N.M., served in the South Pacific with the 2nd Marine Division...

If I'm misinformed about any of this, please correct me. First glance at this old topic: Topic: "TAKE ACTION: We're Paying War Reparations to Guam for What Japan Did" Here's the summary on the above. War reparations were claimed by the government of Guam and introduced through the "Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act". The reasoning is that Guamanian people suffered from WW2 and the US already gave Japan a "get out of jail free card" after the war. Hence we treat it as any other internal crisis and pay for it with our tax dollars. I understand... really....

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising, died Friday in Warsaw at the age of 90. Paula Sawicka told The Associated Press that Edelman died at her family's home at 2 p.m. EDT (1800GMT) of old age. "He died at home, among friends, among his close people," Sawicka said.

Get Out of Jail Free: Monopoly's Hidden Maps Silk Escape Maps Concealed in Game Boards Helped WWII It's a story that will forever change the way you think of the phrase, "Get Out of Jail Free...

Reenactment of the Battle of Lowicz, 1939 (pictures, video) Battle of Lowicz was fought between 11 and 14 September, 1939 - being a part of the Battle of the Bzura – the largest battle of 1939 campaign in Poland. Actually – the battle of the Bzura was also the largest counter attack land operation against German forces until 1941. Town of Lowicz was heavily destroyed by the German forces. The first building bombed by the Luftwaffe was the hospital – with its roof marked with huge red cross. Many wounded and ill people got burnt alive there. During the battle...

LONDON — Britain's late queen Elizabeth the queen mother revealed in a letter published on Sunday how she and her husband king George VI came close to being killed during World War II in a German bombing raid. Written only hours after the incident, the letter tells how the royal couple leapt when they heard the "unmistakable whirr-whirr of a German plane" and then the "scream of a bomb" 69 years ago. The bomb exploded in the grounds of Buckingham Palace and three servants were injured in the attack, the queen wrote to her mother-in-law. "My darling Mama. I hardly...

Seventy years ago this week Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany, ignited the most cataclysmic war in history. Some six years later, with over 60 million dead, a Holocaust conceived as the Final Solution for European Jewry, killing fields that left most of Europe scarred and, finally, the unleashing of atomic weapons over Japan, the carnage ended. Mighty volumes of the war's history have been written. Memoirs, official records and grisly details of unimaginable sufferings of victims have been published. Documentaries and record numbers of movies have been produced to understand how and why civilization could break down so...

Wow: I Never Thought Pat Buchanan Was This Stupid I've always had respect for Pat Buchanan on an intellectual level, even though I've long suspected his justifiable hatred for the Soviet Union clouded his ability to see World War II clearly. But this is too much: "Hitler had never wanted war with Poland, but an alliance with Poland such as he had with Francisco Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, Miklos Horthy's Hungary and Father Jozef Tiso's Slovakia". Buchanan seems to know Hitler's mind better than Hiler. Hitler in Mein Kampf, Vol. 2, Ch. 14: "Therefore we National Socialists have purposely drawn...

BBC Headline: The German invasion of Poland continues regardless of warnings from Britain and France to withdraw. Germany has bombed over 21 Polish cities since beginning her invasion of Poland yesterday. So far, it's estimated that 1,500 people have been either killed or wounded during the last two days. Throughout the day the German invasion forces have been penetrating further into Poland. The Polish forces are putting up a brave fight, but they are unable to stop the German advance. 'According to Germany, their army is sweeping through Poland ...' A communiqué from her High Command announced German air superiority...

Bunker, Sweet Bunker 3:55 pm Tuesday Sep 1, 2009 by Caroline Stanley German-based architect Rainer Mielke has been repurposing old World War II bunkers into bright, airy apartments for the past ten years. In the future he plans to design a food bunker, office bunker, and music bunker — for bands having trouble finding practice space — as well. More images, including some cheery interior shots, after the jump. [via The Local]

  Alan Turing, who is said to be the father of modern computer science, was a WWII code-breaker until he was prosecuted by the British government for having homosexual relations. Thousands have now signed a petition calling for a government apology.Turing committed suicide two years after his prosecution in 1954, but was before given experimental chemical castration as a “treatment”. He is most well known for his NAZI enigma code breaking work for the British during the second World War and his helping establish a test to measure the intelligence of a machine which is now known as a Turing Test.So...

GDANSK, Poland — Former enemies and allies somberly marked the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II on Tuesday, underlining the need to remember the bloodiest conflict in the 20th century so as not to repeat it. ----snip--- About 20 European leaders and officials, including French Premier Francois Fillon and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, were joining Merkel and Putin for the ceremonies. The U.S. was being represented by National Security Adviser James Jones. The delegation, which is lower-ranking than that of most European nations, has disappointed some in Poland who view Washington as a historical ally. U.S....

Polish, German churches release joint WW II declaration 25.08.2009 09:32 A declaration issued jointly by Polish and German bishops to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II is to be announced today. The document, to be released during a press conference after a meeting of the permanent council of the episcopate is the outcome of a collaboration of the two countries’ episcopatesis and will be signed by the chairmen of the two episcopates – Archbishops Józef Michalik and Robert Zollitsch. According to the spokesman of the Polish episcopate, Father Józef Kloch, the document takes into account...

Russian TV claims Poland was WW II aggressor 24.08.2009 03:35 On the anniversary of the signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, 1939, the Russian state-controlled Rossiya TV channel broadcast a documentary claiming Poland was planning an invasion with Nazi Germany of the Soviet Union. The documentary claims that the government in Warsaw was in a secret alliance from 1933 with Nazi Germany and Japan in plans to invade the Soviet Union. The deal was struck within the, as yet, unpublished part of a non-aggression treaty between Poland and Germany signed in January 1934. Hitler’s portrait in...

Molotov-Ribbentrop: 70 Years On, Russians Loyal To Their Version Of Events August 23, 2009 By Kevin O'Flynn MOSCOW -- The past is a controversial subject in Russia. And the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact is no exception. The nonaggression pact, signed on August 23, 1939, by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop, included a secret protocol that divided up Northern and Eastern Europe into Nazi and Soviet "spheres of influence." In the run-up to the anniversary, Russia's state television and newspapers pushed a version of historical events that saw the...

View of the fighter plane’s cockpit with human remains still resting inside. A group of divers, who found a downed WWII British fighter plane within relative shallow waters off the North African coast, can now confirm the existence of human remains inside the cockpit of the Curtis P40. The group are still seeking to discuss the find with the British Government and Ministry of Defence with the intention of arranging the recovery of the plane from the sea and the repatriation of the remains of the pilot who was presumably shot down during a mission. At a difficult time for...

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TOKYO — Japan's prime minister expressed deep regret over the suffering his country inflicted on Asian countries during World War II in a solemn ceremony Saturday that marked the 64th anniversary of Tokyo's surrender. Prime Minister Taro Aso joined some 4,800 families to pay respect to millions of Japan's war dead at the Nihon Budokan hall in Tokyo. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko also attended the ceremony, leading a one-minute silence at noon. "Our country inflicted tremendous damage and suffering on many countries, particularly people in Asia. As a representative of the Japanese people, I humbly express my remorse for...

The Australian cruiser met the disguised German vessel in the waters off western Australia two years after the two became enemies in World War II. The Australian ship approached, trying to determine whether the vessel was friendly. It wasn't. What resulted was Australia's worst naval disaster: the sinking of the Australian ship and the loss of its entire crew of 645. The wreckage wasn't found until last year, leading to decades of conspiracy theories about what actually happened. On Wednesday a long-awaited report on the sinking of the Sydney II ended the mystery that began when it met its fate,...

Katyn victims in Kharkov were ‘limed’ 10.08.2009 12:10 Secret NKVD documents reveal that thousands of Katyn massacre victims executed in Kharkov were later covered with lime to conceal traces of mass murder. A letter, branded ‘top secret,’ has recently been found by the Ukrainian Security Service in post-Soviet archives. It reads: “In a forest about 100 metres from Kharkov-Bilgorod road, within a 50-metre radius, are many spots of collapsed earth. The holes are rectangular, 3x6 metres. One of the holes has been dug out and human bones and skulls can be seen. Some of the bones are scattered on the...

WWII US airman's remains repatriated from Hungary By PABLO GORONDI (AP) – 4 days ago BUDAPEST, Hungary — The remains of a U.S. airman killed in Hungary near the end of World War II are on their way back to the United States, officials said Tuesday. The remains of Sgt. 1st Class Marvin Steinford were discovered five years ago in a mass grave in the town of Zirc in western Hungary, where he had been buried with 26 Soviet soldiers. Steinford, a native of Iowa, was part of a 10-man crew of a B-17 bomber which was shot down near...

A majority of Americans surveyed believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, but support was weaker among Democrats, women, younger voters and minority voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. The poll, released Tuesday, found 61 percent of the more than 2,400 American voters questioned believe the U.S. did the right thing. Twenty-two percent called it wrong and 16 percent were undecided.

ATHENS — A first-person account of World War II bombing runs by a now-deceased McDowell County soldier resurfaced recently at his home in Athens. Harry Elmer Gates of War was 21 when he flew on at least 21 wartime missions from England to targets in Germany, Holland and France in 1944 as a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, the forerunner to the U.S. Air Force.

As many people across the nation enjoy a day off for July 4th, the grills will be fired up and the fireworks will light up the night sky. It is a time for celebrating our nation’s freedom from the British government’s tyranny and control over a group of independent patriots, determined to build a nation based upon individual freedoms and rights. While the current trend in Washington is to move toward the oppressive, suffocating monstrosity of big government (which is spawning TEA Parties across the nation), it is a time for my family and me to reflect, not only on...

ON TV Hitler's Stealth Fighter airs Sunday, June 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on the National Geographic Channel. About the show >> Top stealth-plane experts have re-created a radical, nearly forgotten Nazi aircraft: the Horten 2-29, a retro-futuristic fighter that arrived too late in World War II to make it into mass production. (See Hitler's stealth fighter in pictures.) The engineers' goal was to determine whether the so-called stealth fighter was truly radar resistant. In the process, they've uncovered new clues to just how close Nazi engineers were to unleashing a jet that some say could have changed the course...

Poland honours WWII victims in cyber space By Maja Czarnecka WARSAW (AFP) — Seventy years after the eruption of World War II, Poland is paying homage to Polish victims of the 1939-1945 Nazi occupation by posting their names on a vast historical list in cyberspace. The project aims to bring to light the names of victims -- both those who perished and those who were persecuted but survived -- who were never registered, as well as to gather death records dispersed across Poland, Germany, Ukraine, and Israel in one place accessible to all. "How many forms do I have to...

MOSCOW, June 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia remembers on Monday the start of the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, the term used in Russia and other ex-Soviet states to describe WWII. Nazi Germany and its allies attacked the country's west, delivering massive air strikes on key air, railroad and military facilities and advancing 250-300 km deep into Soviet territory on June 22, 1941. The war, planned to be a matter of months, lasted for four years and became the world's bloodiest conflict in history. At least 26.5 million Soviet civilians and soldiers died during the conflict, according to official statistics. Veterans,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that U.S. President Barack Obama was the sole western leader not to belittle the Soviet role in defeating Nazi Germany at this month's D-Day commemorations. With relations between Moscow and the west still tense after the Georgia war last August and January's gas crisis, Moscow singled out the June 6 Normandy event as the latest example of the west snubbing Russia. Obama is due to visit Moscow next month in an effort to improve strained ties. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said Obama's speech recognized the Russian contribution to the war effort,...

President Barack Obama's planned visit to the former Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald on June 5 will have special significance because his great uncle, Charlie Payne, was one of the American soldiers who liberated a sub-camp of Buchenwald sixty-four years ago. In this April 16, 1945 black and white file photo, Buchenwald inmates are seen inside their barracks a few days after US troops liberated the concentration camp near Weimar. Photo: AP On April 4, 1945, Payne's unit came across the sub-camp, called Ohrdruf, as they chased the retreating German army. The Nazi guards had already abandoned the camp and...

Three years ago, I stood at the foot of Brazil’s iconic statue of Christ the Redeemer on Corcovado Rock overlooking Rio de Janeiro — a magnificent representation of the resurrected Christ, arms outstretched, the marks of atoning sacrifice in his hands. In my tour group was Barlow Briggs, then a spry 86 years old, who had been a Mormon missionary in Brazil as a young man. He recalled how, one Sunday after church, he and his companion rode the Corcovado train up to admire the statue, erected only 10 years prior. The next day, he said, bold newspaper headlines announced...

Russia: Poland responsible for WW II 04.06.2009 13:08 Russian Defence Ministry has accessed Poland of being responsible for World War II in an article published on its official web site. The article was written by Colonel Sergey Kovalov from the Institute of War History at the Russian Defence Ministry and published in a War Encyclopedia under the title “History – against lies and falsification”. “Everyone who studies the history of WW II without prejudice knows that the war started because Poland refused to satisfy German claims. However, not everyone knows what exactly Adolf Hitler wanted from Poland. His claims were...

A successful American intelligence operation uncovered their plans and the U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces in early June of 1942, sinking four Japanese carriers while losing only one of their own. Japan's defeat at Midway turned turn the tide of the war in the Pacific and put America squarely on the offensive. But the victory came at a high price, particularly for the men of Torpedo Squadron 8.

On this Memorial Day, thousands of small American flags will fly in cemeteries near your home, next to the headstones of men and women who defended this country. Flags also will decorate the thousands of graves at Arlington National Cemetery as well as sacred ground throughout Europe and the Pacific that bears long, straight rows of ivory-white crosses and stars. Many of the young Americans who rest under these simple markers did not live past the age of 19 or 20. There also are tens of thousands of equally young men who fought gallantly for this country during World War...

The Germans are responsible for the industrial-scale mass murder of 6 million Jews. But the collusion of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently. The trial of John Demjanjuk is set to throw a spotlight on Hitler's foreign helpers. [...] But it's already clear that this last big Nazi trial in Germany will be a deeply extraordinary one because it will for the first time put the foreign perpetrators in the spotlight of world publicity. They are men who have until now received surprisingly little attention -- Ukrainian gendarmes and Latvian auxiliary police, Romanian...

7-8pm -- Night of the Long Knives - One of Adolf Hitler's most brutal and dramatic exterminations came half a decade before the sins of the Holocaust. The SA was Hitler's army of thugs, but the head of the SA, Ernst Roehm, was threatening Hitler's rule. On June 29th 1934, Hitler ordered the SA leadership to appear for a meeting at the Hotel Hanselbauer. Without warning, the SS burst in, beginning 48 hours of bloodshed in which 1000 of the leading SA, including Roehm, were rounded up and slaughtered. This murderous deed became an ominous warning of what was to...

It has been 64 years since the end of the Great Patriotic War, better known in the West and the rest of the world as World War 2, but the debate over the victory and its debasement has never been stronger or more ruthlessly waged. It is time to set things straight. First we will work through the favorite Myths that the West loves to use against Russia. Myth 1: Poland was the first victim of the Nazi and Soviet regimes.First of all, let us set the stage on Poland. Between 1918 and 1924, Poland invaded all of its neighbors...

BARACK Obama is a history buff. When he makes a political point he instinctively reaches for the historical parallel: the Lincolnesque "team of rivals" making up his cabinet, Winston Churchill's attitude to torture or his own family's experience of World War II. The only problem is that he sometimes gets history wrong. His plan to visit Buchenwald is in part a tribute to his great-uncle, Charlie Payne, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf, a satellite camp. Last May, however, Mr Obama said that his uncle "was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz". Republicans pointed out...

MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - A military parade involving over 9,000 personnel, 103 sophisticated tracked and wheeled military vehicles, as well as 69 aircraft and helicopters was launched on Moscow's Red Square at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time (06:00 GMT) on Saturday, when Russia celebrates Victory Day. Victory Day marks the final surrender by Nazi Germany to the U.S.S.R. in WWII, often referred to as the Great Patriotic War in Russia and other states in the former Soviet Union. Moscow's Military District Commander, Col. Gen. Valery Gerasimov, is running the parade. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed the parade, congratulating the...