US hands over guard (95) concentration camp to Germany | NOW
The United States on Saturday extradited a 95-year-old former warden of the concentration camp at Neuengamme to Germany. The very elderly Friedrich Karl B. arrived … Read more
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Eight-thousandth photo of American soldiers buried in Margraten | NOW
This week the eight thousandth photo was found of the American soldiers buried in Margraten. This means that four out of five Americans who died … Read more
Love letters from the trench | Global World Blog
Cécile Filippi never said that about “Twitter, do your magic”, but the spell worked anyway and the love letters of a young French man sent … Read more
“Enigma”: they find a Nazi encryption machine at the bottom of the sea
Related news A machine Enigma, the legendary modelor used by the Nazis in WWII to encrypt information, recently found in the Baltic Sea, was handed … Read more
Defense starts salvage warplane from Markermeer | NOW
Defense started on Monday with the recovery of a British bomber that was shot down in the Second War and which lies at the bottom … Read more
Tragedy in cement: ENCI closes definitively after almost a hundred years …
Maastricht / Itteren – Cement factory ENCI closed its gates definitively on Friday. Maastricht is losing a controversial icon. A company that worked generation after … Read more
Victims commemorated 75 years ago of Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies | NOW
In The Hague, the victims of the Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies are commemorated at the Indisch Monument. It will be exactly 75 … Read more
The kiss we still talk about 75 years later wasn’t even …
Also in 1945 there was applause for nursing staff. Day after day 75 years ago, Times Square in New York filled with people celebrating the … Read more
Japan commemorates 75 years ago devastating bomb on Nagasaki | NOW
On Sunday, the atomic bomb that completely destroyed the city 75 years ago was commemorated in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The bomb, called Fat … Read more