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The Maidenhead Advertiser [UK] 01 July 2015 Sir Nicholas Winton, the Maidenhead man who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from Nazi persecution, has died aged 106. The Rotary Club of Maidenhead announced today that Sir Nicholas, who lived in Pinkneys Green, died peacefully early this morning with his daughter Barbara and two grandchildren at […] July 2nd, 2015 | Tags: Adolph Hitler, Czechoslovakia, Holocaust, Jews, Nicholas Winton, obituary, refugees | Category: Great Britain, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers 6/19/2015 …The Islamic State plans to take Baghdad to make it the capital of a radical Sunni caliphate from what is left of Syria and Iraq. Its enemy, theocratic Iran, is forging its own Shiite empire. Through its proxies, Iran now effectively runs much of Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. […] June 19th, 2015 | Tags: Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Caliphate, dictators, isolationism, Katharine Ramsey Atholl, Vladimir Putin | Category: Barack Obama, China, Europe, History, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Politics, Russia, World War II | Comments are closed
Allen West 6/6/2015 …This time 71 years ago, there were men who boarded airplanes based in England. Their flight path would take them over the English Channel to Normandy where their mission was to jump in behind enemy lines. Their responsibility was to restore liberty to those who had been living under the […] June 6th, 2015 | Tags: 'culture of celebrity', Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, courage, D-Day, freedom | Category: Europe, Great Britain, History, Military, Nazis, Progressives, World War II | Comments are closed
Jon Street The Blaze 2/10/2015 He was there when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and his ashes will likely be placed inside the memorial honoring the hundreds of shipmates whose deaths he witnessed that fateful morning. Joseph Langdell, the last known surviving officer of the USS Arizona, died last week. He […] February 10th, 2015 | Tags: Japan, Joseph Langdell, Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona | Category: Hawai'i, World War II | Comments are closed
21 photos commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz and a tweet quoting Pres. Obama Twitchy 1/27/2015 …Survivors, dignitaries and world leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron of the U.K. gathered in Poland today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The BBC reports: Those who survived Auschwitz lived through one […] January 27th, 2015 | Tags: Adolph Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Ann McElhinney, Auschwitz, concentration camps, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Holocaust, Poland | Category: Barack Obama, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
Victor Davis Hanson Investors.com 1/21/2015 Fifty years ago this Saturday, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died at age 90. Churchill is remembered for his multiple nonstop careers as a statesman, Cabinet minister, politician, journalist, Nobel laureate historian and combat veteran. He began his career serving the British military as a Victorian-era mounted lancer and […] January 27th, 2015 | Tags: death, Iron Curtain, leadership, Western civilization, Winston Churchill | Category: Europe, Fascism, Germany, Great Britain, Nazis, Politicians, Russia, World War II | Comments are closed
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