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Jeannie Rousseau (de Clarens), in 1939 or 1940.

‘What I did was so little’: Remembering World War II spy hero Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens

Conflict

There are fewer and fewer heroes left from World War II. We remember a French woman, a spy, Jeannie Rousseau, who passed away last week.

After the ancient Jewish graveyard in Thessaloniki was destroyed, the gravestones were broken up and used as building materials in the city.

The rescued Jewish tombstones of Thessaloniki

Religion
A still frame from a film shot by American doctor Ralph H. Major showing a German Nazi event in 1933 or 1934.

In which Adolf Hitler creeps into your home movies

Culture
MIT professor Rainer Weiss dreamed up the idea behind an antennae so sensitive it could detect faint invisible ripples in space and time.

A physicist who proved Einstein right started by tinkering with the family record player

Global Politics
Prora

A failed Nazi beachfront resort will undergo a radical transformation

Education
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Martin Niemöller at the 8th World Youth Festival.

Trump, Martin Niemöller and the Washington Post

Culture

Three decades after his death, the Lutheran theologian who stood up to the Nazis is front-page news. His response to Hitler’s persecution has been widely adapted after Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric against Mexicans and Muslims.

Dutch and U.S. flags decorate the graves at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten.

Generations of Dutch citizens still trek to the graves of US World War II soldiers

Conflict

Thousand of families in the Netherlands have adopted the graves of US soldiers killed there during World War II. And more than 100 Dutch citizens are on a waiting list to join the program.

Jonas Tarm

Young composer’s Carnegie debut canceled when Nazi music snippet discovered

Music

Jonas Tarm is an up-and-coming composer and his Carnegie Hall debut this month was to be his coming out party. But that won’t happen, after a complaint was filed over his composition’s inclusion of a 45-second passage of the anthem of Germany’s Nazi party.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, 1920

How the Nazis helped Coco Chanel — and Chanel No. 5

Culture

The story behind Chanel No. 5 is complex, in which an icon of fashion fraternized with fascists to try to eliminate her Jewish partners.

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‘Mein Kampf’ to Be Published Again in Germany

Conflict & Justice

Adolf Hitler’s infamous ideological tome, Mein Kampf, is soon to be published in Germany for the first time since 1945. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Munich.

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