Sunday, June 07, 2009

Obama: Nazi camp 'horror' persists

 

President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel listen to 
Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertram Herz, left, during a 
visit to the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp on Friday.Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and said the leaders must not rest against the spread of evil.

Last of its kind, deadly Nazi E-boat rises again

 

Known as S130, the last remaining German E-boat is being restored at 
a cost of $8.25 million in Millbrook, England.In a nondescript shed in a English seaside village, a torpedo boat behind one of the Second World War's worst disasters is being restored.

Canadian Navy D-Day monument unveiled

 

On the eve of commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, a monument was unveiled honouring the role of the Canadian Navy in the biggest seaborne invasion in history.

Its about time for this, considering most of the troops were carried on those ship.

D-Day veteran still not sure how he survived

 

As the world stops to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Canadian veteran Stanley Fields still isn't sure how he survived the terrifying invasion.

I'm sure this is a question that all veterans have asked themselves at one time or another.

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