Posts Tagged ‘World War II’

Poland also to blame for outbreak of World War II, says Russian intelligence

Sunday, September 6, 2009 21:41 By GSerrano

According to revelations of Russian intelligence, Polish leaders ‘conspired’ during the 1930s with Nazi Germany against the vital interests of the Soviet Union, ‘instigating separatism’ in the Caucasus, Ukraine and Central Asia to promote the ‘disintegration’ of the USSR, and ‘opposed’ the formation of an international coalition against Hitler in 1939. These are some revealing [...]

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The misguided path of Putin’s Russian nationalism

Sunday, September 6, 2009 7:49 By GSerrano

Ten years of current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in power have been aimed to strengthen the international role of Russia in the hope that the country recovers its status of great power that the USSR once had.
On the other hand, human rights advocates worry that Russia launched a racist and belligerent nationalism. The message [...]

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A design straight from Hitler’s heart: Horten 2-29 stealth fighter recreated

Thursday, July 2, 2009 18:16 By Neo

The mind of one gifted genius, be it a very evil one, unleashed a war on the world unlike anything else before or after it and while Adolf Hitler and his barbarous Nazi regime ended decades, the heaps of secret documents and the vast technological progress that its army made as early as in 1940’s [...]

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Weekly Recap: Best of Dark Roasted Blend

Monday, May 11, 2009 11:26 By Team

The Extremes of Retro Tech, designs at par
Japanese architecture: Narrow is a word for buildings here. Slim- Even less than a meter in width
A recollection of World War II—Tribute to it for creation of many wonder Weapons!
Out-of-the-box clocks and watches—what’s the time boy?
The Pasta Ogre: Well I would call it an unusual form of food [...]

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Japanese American Internment Camps

Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:18 By GSerrano

The United States government incarcerated approximately 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans in internment after the bombing on Pearl Harbor. These were forcible relocation sites whose housing facilities were called ‘War Relocation Camps.’
Executive Order 9066 of President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the process. Operationally, this meant that local military commanders were permitted to demarcate so-called ‘military areas’ [...]

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The sole survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Thursday, March 26, 2009 19:22 By GSerrano

Tsutomu Yamaguchi witnessed the first atomic bombing while he was on a business trip. Shortly after he returned to his home, he witnessed the second bombing. He is lucky on two counts: surviving the massive explosions and living to tell the monumental tale.
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. marked a tragic milestone in launching the [...]

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