During World War II, tyranny and destruction swept over continents, and the very foundations of our freedom stood in peril.

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BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- East Berlin is a city under siege. Germans recall 1953 revolt BERLIN, Aug. 14, 1961 (UPI) -- Eight years ago this summer the Soviet zone of Germany exploded into ...

Dahlerus, a Swedish manufacturer, involved himself in the negotiations between Berlin and London on the eve of World War II. As a friend of Goering, he acted as an ineffectual emissary between Berlin ...

PARIS, Oct. 21, 1948 (UP) - The three western powers, who have decided to withdraw their condemnation of Russia as a threat to peace if the Berlin blockade is lifted, accepted a small-nation formula ...

Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse powerfully describes what passed for normal life in the abnormal capital of Hitler's empire, says Ian Thomson National socialism, with its ritual humiliation of Jews ...