Nov 15 Watch Family history comes to life: Dress designs lost in Holocaust uncovered By PBS News Hour When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. Among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedy, a dress designer. Ultimately, neither would get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia. Now, in an… Continue watching
Oct 08 Photographers sneak into London’s underground world By Victoria Fleischer A dentist, a bus driver and a surgeon pop open a manhole cover and shimmy into the opening, abseiling into the depths of London's sewer system. They're not authorized to do this, mind you, but they're determined. You see, they,… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch World leaders and veterans honor the invasion that turned the tide of WWII By PBS News Hour It was a military assault unlike anything the world had ever seen: In 1944, well over 150,000 allied troops landed in France to fight the Nazis. On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, President Obama and other world leaders gathered at… Continue watching
Jun 06 Obama honors U.S. D-Day vets at Normandy By Nedra Pickler and Julie Pace, Associated Press COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France -- Seventy years after Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, President Barack Obama returned Friday to this hallowed battleground in what he called a "powerful manifestation of America's commitment to human freedom" that lives on in a… Continue reading
Jun 05 89-year-old D-Day veteran recreates parachute jump into France By Lorna Baldwin A day before the anniversary of D-Day, 89-year-old Jock Hutton recreated the parachute jump he made into a field in Normandy 70 years ago. Continue reading
May 20 British World War II veterans commemorate 70th anniversary of D-Day aboard HMS Belfast By Justin Scuiletti World War II veterans Tuesday sat alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron aboard the HMS Belfast as a C-75 Dakota aircraft flew above the vessel on the river Thames. Veterans who served aboard the Belfast were joined by veterans from… Continue reading
May 19 Photo: Beach audience for a World War II bomb detonation By News Desk People on the beach watched the detonation of a World War II-era airplane bomb in Wassenaar, Netherlands Monday. Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch Remembering ‘Operation Paperclip,’ when national security trumped ethical concern By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 21 Watch Political turmoil, Crimea annexation enflames underlying divisions in Eastern Ukraine By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 20 German prosecutors arrest suspected Auschwitz guards By Saskia de Melker According to the Associated Press reports, police in southern Germany raided the homes of nine elderly men suspected of serving as Schutzstaffel, or SS for short, guards at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during World War II. Three men were… Continue reading