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I wrote a column in this paper on the contortion of Western intellectuals who were attempting to distinguish between a ...

The Nazis hanged 13 young adults without trial in Cologne in 1944, among them Edelweiss Pirates, in a place that is marked by ...

Nations from around the world have been rallying to the support of Ukraine as the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale ...

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The French Resistance risked everything to fight Nazi occupation. Their courage changed the course of WWII.

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