Stalingrad

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill gave his first address to the House of Commons as prime minister. While German troops were tearing through Western Europe, a defiant Churchill famously told the British people that there was one objective: “Victory”. In the meantime, he had “nothing to offer but blood,…

Andre Harrell, recording artist Mary J. Blige and producer Sean 'Diddy' Combs in 2018 (Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images) Andre Harrell, whose death over the weekend at age 59 stunned the hip-hop world and beyond in show business, was wary when I met him in the early 1990s. After all, I…

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On March 12, 1939, Heroes’ Memorial Day (or Veterans Day) in the Nazi Third Reich, the thousands of onlookers at the giant annual parade in Berlin were treated to an unusual sight as a small monoplane landed on the Unter den Linden between Hermann Göring’s State Opera House and the…

Here's What You Need To Remember: The Russo-German War was no ordinary conflict fought over territory or resources. For Nazi Germany, it was a war of extermination and subjugation that would have killed the Russian people or reduced them to slavery. For the Soviet Union, it was a war of survival…

Roy Horn, best known as half of the legendary Siegfried & Roy magic and animal act in Las Vegas, has died from complications due to coronavirus. He was 75. “Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said…

“Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to have this opportunity of addressing myself to the Soviet people on the occasion of the victory of the United Nations over the Hitlerite aggressor”, wrote British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden on 9 May 1945 in an article for the newspaper Britansky…

Virginia, (Sputnik) - A World War II prop fighter airplane with a colourful "Flying Tigers" paint scheme, an insignia of US volunteer pilots who fought the Japanese in the Pacific, taxies at a Virginia airfield. During its brief first life, the P-40 Kittyhawk had red stars on its wings while…

Danielle Dalledonne/Wikicommons Florian Schneider, a keyboardist and co-founder of the German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died after a short battle with cancer, a representative for the band told TheWrap. He was 73. “Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend…

John Ericson, a star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who appeared in multiple MGM films and in the 1960s TV show “Honey West,” died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of pneumonia on Sunday. He was 93. Born Joseph Meibes in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ericson emigrated with his family to the United States…