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SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France (AP) – At least the dead will always be there.

If the CCP strategy is to conflate Chinese communism with China itself, then our strategy must be the opposite: We must seek to widen the divide between the CCP and the Chinese people, not only in China, but also among Chinese communities around the world. 

MOSCOW (AP) — An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo.

A World War II veteran in Portland, Oregon, is raising money in a unique way to help his neighbors during the coronavirus pandemic. 

The wreath-laying ceremony took place outdoors on Friday at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, where seven World War II veterans joined the president and first lady.

Queen Elizabeth II marked the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day with an address to the British Commonwealth honouring the sacrifice of the fallen.

The event is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m.

For us Jews, the anniversary of the end of World War II is pregnant with meaning, as it marks the end of the Holocaust, the greatest crime in world history.

A 96-year-old World War II veteran is running coast-to-coast for his second time to raise enough money to sail the fully restored landing ship the USS LST 325, to Normandy, France, in time for D-Day’s anniversary.

The George Cross is Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry in extreme danger, often awarded posthumously for acts of stupendous courage and self-sacrifice. In 1942, King George VI conferred a collective GC on the island of Malta for its heroic endurance during a wartime siege lasting nearly two and half years of near-constant attack by the Germans.

Neighbors in Pearl River, New York, recently gave a beloved World War II veteran a birthday surprise he will never forget.

The White House “saluted” two Oregon World War II veterans who collectively survived the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and now the coronavirus in a stunning feat that can give us all hope.

A World War II veteran in Doncaster, England, was honored by healthcare workers on Friday after winning his battle with the coronavirus.

William “Bill” Lapschies celebrated his 104th birthday and his victory over the novel coronavirus on Wednesday.

Democrats faced a grim problem with an unhealthy nominee in the 1944 election, and they developed an effective workaround.

Sen. Tom Cotton is summoning America’s ingenuity from World War II to address today’s war with coronavirus.

Dame Vera Lynn, the iconic Forces’ Sweetheart who raised national morale during the war years, has urged Britons to call on that same community spirit and selflessness to see them through the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump declared a “Whole of America approach” to fighting the coronavirus war. President Roosevelt used that same strategy to lead the U.S. to victory in World War Two.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday at the White House he would invoke the Defense Production Act.

The U.S. Navy commissioned a warship to honor World War II hero, Hershel “Woody” Williams, in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday. 

BERLIN — He led Germany’s army in World War I and served for nearly a decade as the country’s president, but thanks to his role in Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Paul von Hindenburg is an honorary Berliner no more.

United States Marines raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima on this day in 1945. 

The first pilot to break the sound barrier, Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, was born on this day in 1923, in Myra, West Virginia.

A 104-year-old U.S. Marine veteran in Stockton, California, is getting lots of love this week thanks to people all over the world. 

RAKEK, Slovenia — For Marija Frlan it’s as symbolic as it can get: A survivor of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, the Slovenian woman turns 100 years old on Monday, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day.

VIENNA – A member of the Rothschild family is suing the city of Vienna, accusing it of “perpetuating” Nazi laws by plundering the Jewish banking family’s foundation, media reports said Saturday.

JERUSALEM – Thousands of police and counter-terrorism officers will be deployed throughout Jerusalem this week as nearly 50 world leaders will gather in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II.

Her Majesty The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in a Christmas messsage which stressed reconciliation, and the beginning of great things from small steps.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) launched the debate over the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Wednesday by comparing the Democrats’ struggle to remove him from office to the Battle of the Bulge against Nazi Germany in World War II.

The president described the battle as “one of the most consequential and tenacious operations in modern military history”

THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium (AP) – As a schoolboy three-quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery – filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate.

Pope Francis said that the 1945 bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki arose from a “desire for dominance and destruction” in his message for the 2020 World Day of Peace released Thursday.

TEL AVIV – An anti-Israel aid worker for a Catholic organization who has accused Israel supporters of  “vastly inflating” anti-Semitism will receive an award for peace at Belgium’s main Holocaust memorial museum, sparking fury from Jewish leaders.

A Tuskegee Airman celebrated his 100th birthday by flying a plane out of Frederick Municipal Airport in Frederick, Maryland, as a copilot.

More than 100 Community members packed a small church in Taunton, Massachusetts, to honor a veteran who died without family November 22.