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Josef Ganz in the Ardie-Ganz prototype, 1930

What were the Jewish beginnings of Hitler's Nazi war machine?

By PETER BAILEY

The center of Dieulefit in southeastern France.

This French village conspired to save the Jews during the Holocaust

By PAUL SOCKEN

German Enigma machine from World War II, at the Imperial War Museum, London, England.

Iconic WW2 codebreaker Margaret MacFarlane dies at 102

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A cloud is seen over Hiroshima made by the firestorm formed following the dropping of the Little Boy atomic bomb on the Japanese city in what is the first use of nuclear weapons in war, on August 6, 1945.

On This Day: 78 years since US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

Private First Class Richard Barancik joined the "Monuments Men" in 1945; after the war, he became a prolific architect in Chicago.

Last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98

By ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA

People rest in a shelter during evacuation before the detonation of a World War II bomb that was found on the factory site of German industrial giant Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, March 1, 2023.

Tiny Pacific island Nauru declares disaster ahead of WW2 bomb operation

By REUTERS

An exhibition at the Chaim Herzog Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, on partisan, underground, ghetto, and concentration camp resistance fighters.

Israel's vital new museum honors the Jews who fought in World War II

By DAVID GEFFEN

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Polish President Andrzej Duda react after commemorating victims of World War II at the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lutsk, Ukraine July 9, 2023

Polish PM urges Ukraine to allow exhumation of all victims of WWII massacres

By REUTERS

BRITISH FORCES during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944: Troops of the 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red Beach.

France's last surviving D-Day commando dies aged 100

By REUTERS

Technical personnel prepare one of six British Tornado fighters October 11 before the planes took off from the Royal Air Force base in Brueggen

British World War II planes discovered in Ukraine

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Claims Conference- German government negotiations 2023.

Germany commits $1.4 billion for Holocaust survivors

German troops entering Warsaw after surrender of city in 1939.

Good for more than a single reading

By NEVILLE TELLER

Map of Tajikistan showing the capital, Dushanbe

Return to Dushanbe: A family's story of survival after the Holocaust

By Elaine Rosenberg Miller

The Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales coming in to moor at Singapore, December 4, 1941.

Chinese ship detained for hoarding British WWII-era weaponry

By REUTERS

The SS Montevideo Maru.

Sunken WWII US warship uncovered by archaeologists in Japanese waters

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF