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Steven Terjeson | May 26, 2009
Exposing the ‘truth’ about the Nanking massacre
Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 11:19 AM
Beijing, China
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – “City of Life and Death” might sound like your average escapist action film helping to usher in the summer movie season.
But it’s not.
The 2-hour black and white epic recounts the early days of Japan’s [...]
Steven Terjeson | May 13, 2009
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN HOSTS AMC’S MEMORIAL DAY MOVIE MARATHON, WAR HEROES
Marathon Honors Heroes of Combat from Six Iconic Films
[Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976), Patton (1970), The Longest Day (1962), Hamburger Hill (1987), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Battle of the Bulge (1965)]
AMC Heroes Programming Event Airs Throughout May
New York, NY – Senator John McCain will [...]
Steven Terjeson | May 6, 2009
Ask WWII historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees your questions this week on PBS Engage
PBS Engage is featuring WWII historian and filmmaker, Laurence Rees, as part of the ongoing PBS Engage audience question series.
The Engage series features a PBS celebrity or insider and asks visitors to send in questions to be answered the following [...]
Steven Terjeson | May 1, 2009
Builders find Auschwitz message
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/8021845.stm
More than a million people were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners, museum officials say.
The message, written in pencil and dated 9 September 1944, bears names, camp numbers and home [...]
Steven Terjeson | April 23, 2009
Today in WWII History
Audio Clip: CBS World News Today from 18 April 1943.
World War II History - CBS World News Today - 18 April 1943 [24:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSteven Terjeson | April 6, 2009
Original ‘Schindler’s List’ Found in Sydney Library
AFP
The List | Discovery News – April 6, 2009 — A list of Jews saved by Oskar Schindler that inspired the novel and Oscar-winning film “Schindler’s List” has been found in a Sydney library, its co-curator said.
Workers at the New South Wales State Library found the list, containing the [...]
Steven Terjeson | March 24, 2009
Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim
Tuesday , March 24, 2009
AP – foxnews.com
TOKYO —
A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified “hibakusha,” or radiation survivor, of the Aug. 9, [...]
Steven Terjeson | January 27, 2009
Medvedev orders precise Soviet WWII death toll
IRINA TITOVA – Published January 27, 2009 – The Olympian
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered officials to determine the precise Soviet death toll in World War II as the nation marked the 65th anniversary of the battle that broke the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
Russia, which suffered hugely in [...]
Steven Terjeson | January 25, 2009
Man Enters Plea In Attempted Sale Of Hitler’s Stolen Bookmark
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 – updated: 1:35 pm PST December 11, 2008 http://kirotv.com
SEATTLE, WA — A man accused of selling an 18-karat gold bookmark that reportedly belonged to Adolf Hitler pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday morning.
Christian Popescu, 37, a Romanian national in Kenmore, was [...]
Steven Terjeson | November 26, 2008
Bellevue arrest recovers Hitler’s stolen gold bookmark
12:00 PM PST on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 KIRO News
Immigration officials say this 18-carat gold bookmark was given by Eva Braun to Adolf Hitler. It was stolen in 2002 from a Spanish auction house.
SEATTLE – Immigration officials say a Romanian national who was arrested outside a Bellevue, Wash., Starbucks [...]
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