Read more World War II stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/6734/world-war-ii.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:21:30 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn honor of Veterans Day, the Huffington Post runs down the best war movies of all time: Apocalypse Now: Vietnam War From Here to Eternity: Pearl Harbor Patton: World War II Braveheart: Scotland’s battle for independence Lawrence of Arabia: World War I Band of Brothers: World War II (and, yes,...http://www.newser.com/story/73809/best-war-movies-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 19:29:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72904/hitlers-last-aide-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle died this week, at 96, and historians hope his soon-to-be released memoirs will silence once and for all claims from revisionists that Hitler wasn't aware of the Holocaust. Fritz Darges was present at most of Hitler's conferences until 1944, when he...http://www.newser.com/story/72904/hitlers-last-aide-dies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 6:46:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/72718/nazi-hitman-goes-on-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Dutch Nazi collaborator who killed his countrymen in reprisals for anti-German actions has gone on trial in Germany. Heinrich Boere, 88, has admitted gunning down three civilians as part of a Waffen SS death squad. He fled to Germany after the war and dodged extradition attempts for years. Prosecutors...http://www.newser.com/story/72718/nazi-hitman-goes-on-trial.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 2:59:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71221/wwii-gi-returns-looted-16th-century-german-books.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRetired optometrist Robert Thomas handed a pair of books he filched as an 18-year-old GI 64 years ago to the German ambassador in a ceremony at the National Archives this week. Thomas, 83, found the 400-year-old legal volumes stashed among millions of others in a salt mine while inspecting recently...http://www.newser.com/story/71221/wwii-gi-returns-looted-16th-century-german-books.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 3:19:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70840/only-footage-of-anne-frank-hits-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian . The film, of an Amsterdam neighbor’s wedding,...http://www.newser.com/story/70840/only-footage-of-anne-frank-hits-youtube.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 02 Oct 2009 10:55:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70418/skull-not-hitlers-suicide-in-doubt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA portion of bullet-pierced skull believed to be Adolf Hitler's is actually from the head of a woman under 40, throwing into question how the Nazi dictator died, American scientists have revealed. The skull portion, seized by Russians after soldiers stormed Hitler's bunker, has the DNA, bone thickness and fusion...http://www.newser.com/story/70418/skull-not-hitlers-suicide-in-doubt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 2:23:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69678/adidas-puma-end-60-year-feud-with-a-soccer-game.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe family feud is over. Adidas and Puma are putting aside their differences, 60 years after the brothers who founded the German sportswear giants had a falling-out. Adi and Rudolf Dassler divided the town when each started his own company in Herzogenaurach, Germany, after a disagreement during World War II....http://www.newser.com/story/69678/adidas-puma-end-60-year-feud-with-a-soccer-game.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 9:18:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69606/rings-writer-tolkien-trained-as-wwii-spy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a British spy in early 1939, the Daily Telegraph reports. Newly released records show that Tolkien—one of his generation's foremost linguists—was given spy training along with 50 other intellectuals and had been picked to join the team trying...http://www.newser.com/story/69606/rings-writer-tolkien-trained-as-wwii-spy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 4:09:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69512/the-human-condition-is-95-hours-in-japanese.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Criterion Collection re-release of Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition does high-definition justice to the WWII film critic David Shipman has called “unequivocally the greatest film ever made,” according to Very Short List. The movie follows a good—and handsome—man through the “innumerable trials in World War II–era Japan....http://www.newser.com/story/69512/the-human-condition-is-95-hours-in-japanese.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 17:13:58 CDT