Reading Time: 5 minutes A Canadian family helped solve the mystery of a teenage girl’s life and death at Auschwitz
Tag: Second World War
What did Germans really think of Hitler?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion
Adolf Hitler’s fateful mistake
Reading Time: 4 minutes If Hitler had declared war on Japan in support of the U.S., he might have kept the U.S. out of the European war. And that would have changed history
Film chronicles Ukrainian Canadians’ Second World War contributions
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A researcher interviewed surviving veterans and scoured archival records to help bring stories to light in new documentary
When guilt is acknowledged, forgiveness can be earned
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eva Kor chose to forgive sadistic experimental scientist Josef Mengele and other Nazis for what they did to her
The building of the Atomic Bomb Part 4
Reading Time: 5 minutes Until his death in 1970, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves never had a single regret about the lives that were lost as a result of the Manhattan Project
Finding new value – and a great back story – in an old film
Reading Time: 3 minutes D-Day the Sixth of June was based on an award-winning novel by Canadian journalist Lionel Shapiro
Bringing the Architect of the Holocaust to justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Was Adolf Eichmann a monster or just a loyal officer in a role that largely revolved around establishing train schedules?
The unlucky end of an American war deserter
Reading Time: 4 minutes Private Eddie Slovik, executed 75 years ago, didn’t deserve his fate
Just do the right thing – no matter what
Reading Time: 3 minutes You may never know the outcome of your actions. But you can know with certainty the results of doing nothing