Richard Overy’s prodigious “Blood and Ruins” is a sweeping history of World War II packed with lessons for the future.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
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‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre
Sergei Loznitsa’s new documentary, about the mass murder of Ukrainian Jews in 1941, arrives in theaters with a grim context of its own.
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Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets
Federal law kept the answers on millions of census forms secret for 72 years. The forms go online on Friday, a bonanza for historians, genealogists and the merely curious.
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Vera Gissing, Who Was Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler,’ Dies at 93
She was not quite 11 when train convoys organized by a London stockbroker carried her and hundreds of other Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II.
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How to Live to 100
For one sturdy wartime survivor, living intensely has been the best revenge.