Just watched "Berlin Correspondent," dir. Eugene Forde (20th Century Fox, 1942). It's not so much about a reporter as it is about the Gestapo's efforts to uncover his spying and then beat his escapes. Interesting to me were the overt references to euthanasia or "mercy killings" in the film.
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Nebraska sisters recognized for work during World War II
https://www.wowt.com/2025/04/01/nebraska-women-recognized-work-during-world-war-ii
For thievery and spying escapades set in the Blitz, "Counter-espionage" (aka "The Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard") dir. Edward Dmytryk (Columbia Pictures, 1942) isn't bad. If its light tone, despite its air raids and bombs, seems out of place, it was produced for a wartime public in need of good tales.
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Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle fought on Japanese soil during World War II, the threat of unexploded ordnance still looms over the island. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/04/japan/bomb-disposal-80-years-wwii/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #okinawa #usmilitary #sdf
The Japan Times · Unexploded ordnance still haunts Okinawa 80 years after WWII battle
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Le Silence de la mer is a remarkable film about what a Nazi occupation looks like.
There's a scene where the "sympathetic Nazi" is getting lectured by his fellow officers, and it is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is emerging from the Drumph reich about what they are doing and want to do. It's chilling.
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546236
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park
www.bbc.comBletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.
A few years ago we shot B Roll for a documentary film about the Flossenbürg concentration camp. I had the opportunity to take these pictures. #history #wwii #germany #nazis #photography
The siege of Sevastopol (Oct 41 to Jul 42) was an attack by Axis forces on the base of the USSR's Black Sea Fleet during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). #History #Crimea #ErichVonManstein #SecondWorldWar #SiegeOfSevastopol #Ukraine #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2683-en/
World History EncyclopediaSiege of Sevastopol in 1941-2The siege of Sevastopol (Oct 41 to Jul 42) was an attack by Axis forces on the base of the USSR's Black Sea Fleet during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). Sevastopol (aka Sebastopol...
"Solche Bilder hatte ich noch nie gesehen"
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search.app"Solche Bilder hatte ich noch nie gesehen"Vor ein paar Jahren entdeckte der Fotograf Arthur Bondar wohl heimlich aufgenommene Fotos, die den Vormarsch der Roten Armee 1945 dokumentieren. Diese Fotos werden nun erstmals auf Schloss Neuhardenberg ausgestellt.
lindependant.frGuerre en Ukraine : pour la première fois depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l’Allemagne déploie des troupes aux portes de la RussieL’unité, envoyée sur le flanc oriental de l’OTAN, dans l’est de la Lituanie, sera pleinement opérationnelle d’ici 2027.
Guerre de #Russie en #Ukraine : pour la première fois depuis la #Seconde #Guerre #mondiale #WWII, l’ #Allemagne déploie des #troupes aux portes de la #Russie
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When will the people of #USA finally put a stop to #convictedFelon #DonaldTrump‽
Invading Greenland is such nonsense! #TheOrangeMenace #Trump is getting ideas from #Putin's #Russian invasion of #Ukraine. Also, didn't #Hitler send #German troops to invade #Poland during #WWII?
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@Heidentweet Israel's ties with Europe's right-wing now make perfect sense. This is how Europe can target its Muslim communities (it clearly won't stop with deporting any anti-war protesters) while hiding behind a manufactured "war against antisemitism". While busy genociding in #Gaza, Israel gives Western nations the 'moral' permission to implement policies that would have been unthinkable after #WWII and the #Holocaust.
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After watching Roberto Rossellini's 1945 "Rome Open City" (Roma città aperta) this weekend, I've started on his "Paisan" (1946). This is only the second time I've seen this remarkable collection of six stories about soldiers and civilians during the Allied liberation of Italy, and it feels raw. #OldMovies #WWII #Italy
This map collection explores the geopolitical transformation of Europe between 1914 and 1949. #History #Europe #FirstWorldWar #SecondWorldWar #WWI #WWII #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-301-en/
World History Encyclopedia · Europe 1914–1949: History Maps of the World Wars
The 1930s/1940s are such a cultural reference point for making sense of this moment in history.
Can any historians tell me what the historical reference points were for people in the 1930s and 1940s making sense of their own moment?
I know: "The Great War", aka World War I, is one obvious answer. I'm looking for others. Ta. xo