World War II

We Forgave Him

Ailsa Coutts feels no anger for the German fighter pilot who left her widowed at just 29. She holds a photo of her late husband Andrew.

by Liz Willis

A strange thing happened when a German fighter pilot phoned the Kiwi woman he'd made a widow after shooting down her husband's plane.

Ingeborg Bachmann’s War Diary

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Aiko Suyematsu: A Legacy that Will Live Forever

Hiroshima Marks the 67th Anniversary of A-bomb Attack

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Charles Reznikoff: During the Second World War

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If Walt Whitman were a Jewish Woman

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Joseph Rotblat: Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience

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Sixty Year Anniversary of the Publication of Anne Frank's Diary

 

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Mary Borden: The Forbidden Zone

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Edward R. Murror's War, peace ... but what comes next?

Edward R. Murrow, war correspondent and Chief of the European Staff of the CBC. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

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