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[History: 1900-2000]: Watergate Hotel to be sold at auction

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:43:44 +0000

The Watergate Hotel made famous for its role in Richard Nixon’s downfall will be sold at auction later today.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Henry Allingham: Last surviving Navy veteran of the Great War who lived to become the world’s oldest man

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:17:30 +0000

At the age of 113, Henry Allingham was the world’s oldest man and the last surviving member of the Royal Navy to see action in the First World War. With Allingham’s death, there remains only one man in Britain, Harry Patch, who saw action in the First World War.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Churchill’s forgotten WWII army remembered

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:20:38 +0000

A forgotten army of workers who served Winston Churchill in his secret underground offices will feature in a new exhibition next month, marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the second world war.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Fire destroys Anne Frank barracks in Netherlands

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:18:38 +0000

Fire has destroyed a barracks in the Netherlands where Anne Frank worked before her deportation to the Nazi German concentration camp where she died during World War II, local officials said.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Twenty-two witnesses in Nazi guard trial: report

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:05:50 +0000

Prosecution lawyers in Germany have 22 witnesses lined up for the trial of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk starting mid-October, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Correction: Anne Frank, All-American Girl

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:04:52 +0000

The DVD column on July 5, about “The Diary of Anne Frank,” described preview screenings of the movie incorrectly. They did not in fact include scenes set in Bergen-Belsen. (No such scenes were shot.).

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[History: 1900-2000]: Britain’s oldest man and one of the last Great War heroes, Henry Allingham, dies, aged 113

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:08:12 +0000

They came, they saw the horror, then they conquered. HIS life spanned three centuries and two world wars – and yesterday Henry Allingham, the world’s oldest man, took his final bow.

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[History: 1900-2000]: The head Nazi-hunter’s trail of lies

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:52:32 +0000

Since the early 1960s Simon Wiesenthal’s name has become synonymous with Nazi hunting. His standing is that of a secular saint.

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[History: 1900-2000]: West ignores lessons of Soviet humiliation in Afghanistan

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:28:58 +0000

“THERE is barely an important piece of land in Afghanistan that has not been occupied by one of our soldiers at some time or another,” the commander said. “Nevertheless, much of the territory stays in the hands of the terrorists.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Henry Allingham, British first world war veteran, dies at 113

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:43:09 +0000

Henry William Allingham, the world’s oldest man and one of the last surviving first world war servicemen, has died at the age of 113.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Artist may face charge for ‘Nazi’ gnome

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:08:23 +0000

GERMAN prosecutors in Nur-emberg have launched an investigation into whether an artist’s gold-coloured gnome giving a stiff-armed Hitler salute breaches the country’s

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[History: 1900-2000]: ArborInvestmentPlanner.com Released a Special Report Titled ” The Great Tug of War: Inflation or Deflation; What’s …

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:01:00 +0000

ArborInvestmentPlanner.com released an article describing the simultaneous inflationary and deflationary pressures currently being experienced, and how these forces are effecting society. The article titled “The Great Tug of Way: Deflation or Inflation; What’s Ahead and The Effects On Society” was posted to the companies Blog at: www.ArborInvestmentPlanner.wordpress.com.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Auction on Watergate Hotel Could Begin Next Week

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:52:50 +0000

The famous hotel could be open for bids next week.

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[History: 1900-2000]: WWII codebreakers to be honoured

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:05:46 +0000

A ceremony is taking place to honour the men and women who worked at World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Little-known WWII pet massacre investigated

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:38:30 +0000

One of World War II’s lesser-known massacres — the killing of about 750,000 cats and dogs before bombs fell on London — will be discussed at a public lecture in Wellington next Tuesday.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Drunk neo-Nazi guilty of bomb plot

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:29 +0000

A white supremacist who wanted to fight a racist war against the “non-British” has been convicted by a London court for plotting acts of terrorism and being on the brink of carrying out bomb attacks.

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[History: 1900-2000]: J. Richard Cohen: Probing the Pentagon: Are Gays Really More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis’

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:25:20 +0000

A neo-Nazi skinhead who wants to obtain weapons and combat training to use in a future, domestic “race war” can most likely continue serving in the US army with impunity.

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[History: 1900-2000]: The biologist who broke the Berlin Wall

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:18:22 +0000

Janos Vargha ’s campaign against to stop construction of a dam on the river Danube brought communist hardliners to their knees – and set the scene for the raising of the Iron Curtain

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[History: 1900-2000]: WRAPUP 1-Ex-Soviet economies start slow path to recovery

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:28:14 +0000

* Russia, Ukraine show smallest output fall in 6 months * Kazakhstan unemployment eases

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[History: 1900-2000]: WW2 hero’s return to Normandy

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:12:56 +0000

MEDAL OF HONOUR: Alexander Sheekey is set to revisit the scene of the Normandy landings. A HEROIC Second World War veteran is set to return to the beaches of Normandy on an emotional trip with his grandson.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Former Karl Marx City bucks east German ‘loser’ image

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:26:13 +0000

Even for East Germany’s communist rulers, Chemnitz was only second choice when they were seeking a “model Socialist town” to rename as Karl Marx City in 1953.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Possible WWII digger remains found in PNG

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:13:32 +0000

Skeletal remains suspected to be those of Australian World War II diggers have been unearthed on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Billboard Claiming Martin Luther King Was Republican Angers Black Activists in Houston

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:22:57 +0000

A jumbo-sized road sign claiming that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political fight in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the GOP.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Germany: 27,900 Counts in Nazi Death Camp Case

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:24:30 +0000

John Demjanjuk, 89, who is accused of being a guard at a Nazi death camp and was extradited to Germany from the United States in May, was charged Monday with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Jon Cruddas: Brits to the Fascist BNP: “Not in My Name ”

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:40:46 +0000

On 4 June this year, Britain elected two members of the far-right British National Party (BNP) to the European elections — the first time fascists have been elected to such posts.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Demjanjuk charged over WWII killings

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:54:07 +0000

Retired auto worker John Demjanjuk was formally charged Monday with 27,900 counts of acting as an accessory to murder — one for every person who died at Sobibor during the time he is accused of serving as a guard at the Nazi death camp.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Nazi concentration camp suspect John Demjanjuk charged over 28000 deaths

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:33:09 +0000

John Demjanjuk the suspected Nazi concentration camp guard has been formally charged over the deaths of almost 28000 Jews.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Exiled communist negotiator returns to Philippines ahead of peace talks

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government on Monday welcomed the return of an exiled communist rebel negotiator ahead of a resumption of peace talks that both sides hope will end a 40-year insurgency.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Anne Frank: Who Shaped the Story

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:19:28 +0000

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[History: 1900-2000]: Nazi victim’s art will not be returned to family

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:51:42 +0000

Artworks which used to belong to a victim of Nazi persecution should not be returned to his family and can remain in a British gallery a Government panel has decided.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Pensioner’s revenge on Soviet spy

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:39:56 +0000

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[History: 1900-2000]: Errol Flynn ‘worked as a Nazi spy and met Adolf Hitler’

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:23:12 +0000

Errol Flynn the Hollywood actor was a Nazi spy who met Adolf Hitler shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War it has been alleged.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Winston Churchill’s Chesterfield settee to go under the hammer

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:22:42 +0000

A Chesterfield settee believed to have belonged to Winston Churchill is to go under the hammer.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Bela Kiraly: Soldier who led Hungarian resistance against the Soviet Union during the 1956 uprising

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:03:30 +0000

Major-General Bela Kiraly was 39 years old when he was sentenced to death by Hungary’s Communist authorities at the beginning of 1952.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Son of First World War’s Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig dies

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:37:22 +0000

The son of Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig the commander of British forces on the Western Front in the First World War died on Friday.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Watergate Figure Threatens Suit Over Damaging Tapes

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:24:49 +0000

Watergate figure John Dean is now threatening to sue a college history professor over tapes that suggest Dean is covering up details of his role in the most infamous political scandal in American history.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Lords back move to return art looted by Nazis

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:57:47 +0000

A Bill aimed at helping the rightful owners regain works of art stolen by the Nazis has been given an unopposed second reading in the Lords.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Nazi art set to be returned

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:49:51 +0000

Artworks looted by the Nazis that have ended up in UK galleries could be returned to their owners.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Russia operator denies plan to rename Lenin station

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:27:35 +0000

Russia’s state rail monopoly has denied making a decision to remove the name of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin from one of Moscow’s main train stations.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Watchdog Group: Dozens Of Active-Duty US Troops Found On Neo-Nazi Site

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:11:22 +0000

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[History: 1900-2000]: Russian rail wants to remove Lenin from station name

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Russia’s railway monopoly triggered a row with Communists when it announced a proposal to strip the name of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, from one of Moscow’s train stations.

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[History: 1900-2000]: BMW boss disgusted by Ecclestone’s Hitler comments

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:52:21 +0000

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[History: 1900-2000]: Communist leaders vow stability after China riots

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:37 +0000

China’s top communist leaders vowed to maintain stability in the west of the country in their first public comments Thursday on the ethnic riots that killed more than 150 people.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Australia’s last WWII Victoria Cross winner dies

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:43:05 +0000

Australia’s last surviving World War II recipient of the Victoria Cross, who was awarded the elite medal for storming a Japanese machine gun post, has died aged 90, officials said.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Steve Parker: Hitler praised by Formula 1 chief

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:11:13 +0000

“In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do…

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[History: 1900-2000]: Philippines to resume talks with communist rebels

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:02:53 +0000

The Philippines is set to resume peace negotiations with communist insurgents, four years after long-running talks were suspended, the two sides announced Wednesday.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Human Remains From WWII Found in Poland

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:01 +0000

Polish officials say they have discovered the remains of four bodies dating back to World War II and are investigating whether they were buried in a mass grave with many others.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Poland targets ex neo-Nazi TV chief with court move

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:30 +0000

WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish government called on Wednesday for an administrator to take charge of state-owned broadcaster TVP, moving to end a messy power struggle involving a former neo-Nazi skinhead who currently heads the company.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Nazis were close to building stealth bomber that could have changed course of history

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:23:32 +0000

Nazi engineers were dangerously close to building a stealth warplane shielded from radar that could have changed the outcome of World War II.

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[History: 1900-2000]: Vasily Aksyonov, Exiled Soviet Writer, Is Dead at 76

History in the News from ClassPress.net — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:09:19 +0000

Mr. Aksyonov was a writer who symbolized both the cultural flowering of the period after Stalin’s death and the clampdown that followed it.

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