When the Germans, and Rockets, Came to Town
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After World War II, Huntsville, Ala., was transformed by Wernher von Braunâs rocket program. Now it has one of the countryâs highest concentrations of scientists and engineers.
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It followed the killing of two toddlers in an Israeli town on September 29 by a rocket fired from Gaza. Witnesses said all 200 tanks and armoured vehicles in northern Gaza had withdrawn.
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By Aron Kahn, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 18--Germany was done. American and British bombs had devastated its cities, and the revenge-minded Russian infantry was heading eagerly into Berlin.   It was spring 1945.
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On Sept. 13, 1944, the B-24 with bombadier Second Lt. Frank J. Pratt was shot down by the Germans over Poland. These are excerpts from the diaries he kept in captivity--many of which were written on the backs of paper wrappers from cigarette packs.
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It was a day of jubilation &#151; World War II seemed almost over. But before night fell, joy gave way to terror.
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In John le Carre's 1968 novel, A Small Town in Germany, the protagonist takes note of some posters in Bonn on a pious Friday evening in May during the early post-World War II period: Send the foreign workers ...
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In the land where diamonds are a relative bargain, the Rockets&#39; attempt to mine an old-fashioned gem may have come up with a glitter.
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They grew up as middle-class Germans with the ordinary names Fritz and Daniel. They had by and large sound family backgrounds and attended good schools. They even once played American football and basketball.
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IT WAS one of the most bizarre episodes of the Second World War. When Hitler - s deputy, Rudolf Hess, landed by parachute in 1941 near the estate of the Duke of Hamilton in Lanarkshire, it raised the question ...
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Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."
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World War II tanks rumbled through Paris on Wednesday and thousands of Parisians danced in the streets to re-enact the arrival of French and U.S. forces 60 years ago to liberate the city from four years of Nazi occupation.
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Allied forces were pushing toward Berlin and the end of World War II in Europe seemed assured.
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Until recently, it seemed that Holocaust movies came from everywhere but Germany.
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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A German town faces criticism for naming a school after a man who pioneered the V-2 rocket under the Nazis.
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DRESDEN, Germany -- From an altitude of 10,000 feet, Sergeant Navigator Harold Nash looked down from the cockpit of the British fighter plane as it dropped incendiary bombs on German cities and towns during World War II.