New York: In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France. For this, he was publicly rebuked by the AP, and then quietly fired. The problem: Kennedy had defied military censors to get...
03:40 PM, May 04, 2012
Kohima: Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, on Tuesday paid homage to the hundreds of soldiers of the Allied Forces who fell in the fierce battle of Kohima in 1944 in the Second World War, at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Kohima. Prince Andrew, who is visiting India to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, is the first person from the royal family to visit the war...
02:48 PM, May 01, 2012
London: German dictator Adolf Hitler had plans to set up his headquarters in the English Midlands if the Nazi invasion of Britain had been successful during World War II, say historians. According to them, Hitler had, in fact, chalked out the "top secret" plan to use Apley Hall, near Norton, in the heart of Shropshire countryside in the Midlands as the headquarters of his operation during the Second World War....
07:04 PM, Feb 20, 2012
London: German dictator Adolf Hitler managed to plant a Nazi agent in British spy agency MI5 during the initial years of the Second World War, but failed to utilise him, de-classified documents have revealed. According to the documents, Dutchman Folkert Arie van Koutrik was the first German agent ever to infiltrate MI5 when he was employed by them in 1940. Koutrik had already worked for Abwehr, the German secret service,...
07:59 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Portland, Maine: A treasure hunter said on Wednesday that he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion. If the claim proves true, it could be one of the richest sunken treasures ever discovered. But an attorney for...
02:49 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Tom Hanks is producing a World War II drama based on Erik Larson's book, which is set in the world of Hitler's Germany. Universal studio and Hanks' Playtone have bought the rights of Larson's non-fiction best-seller 'In the Garden of Beasts' to produce. Hanks is also eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle, the Hollywood Reporter said. The book tells the true tale of William...
01:28 PM, Nov 29, 2011
London: A machine used by the Nazis for sending coded messages during World War II will be sold at an auction here this month. It could fetch thousands of pounds at Christie's September 29. The Enigma machine was used by the German military to send messages before the code was famously cracked, the Daily Mail reported. The Germans had believed the code was impossible to break. It was originally produced...
08:16 AM, Sep 19, 2011
New York: A new book about the life of Coco Chanel published in the United States on Tuesday aims to strengthen claims the French designer collaborated with the Nazis during World War II as a spy code-named "Westminster." The book, "Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War," by Paris-based American journalist Hal Vaughan, claims that not only was the designer the lover of a German officer, Hans Gunther von...
10:43 AM, Aug 17, 2011
London: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had ordered sex toys for his troops as many of them were contracting sex diseases from French prostitutes, records have revealed. While researching the history of Barbie, which was based on a post-war German sex doll, author Graeme Donald uncovered Hitler's secretive 'Borghild Project'. Under the World War II project that began in 1940, Nazi scientists developed the "synthetic comforters" for the German soldiers who...
02:12 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Kunming, Yunnan province: Bilateral relations between India and China have often been a bumpy ride. But these days, the Chinese are pinning their hopes on the reopening of a road to improve their relations with India. The Stilwell Road was built during World War II and the Indo-China relations can get a shot in the arm with the reopening of the road. During World War II, 63,000 workers built the...
09:04 AM, Jun 28, 2011
London: Adolf Hitler tried to build a fleet of flying saucers to attack London and New York, a media report said. The Sun reported that one alleged site of production of the Nazi UFOs is a series of tunnels buried under the Jonas Valley in Thuringia, central Germany. Under the command of SS General Hans Kammler, slave labourers there toiled to bring Hitler's fantasies into existence, it said. The German...
12:48 PM, Apr 27, 2011
London: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's henchmen got so desperate in the dying months of World War II that they planned to use poisoned chocolate, coffee and whisky to assassinate Allied leaders, de-classified documents reveal. The Nazi henchmen also planned to create a "Fourth Reich" by sending secret agents to start unrest and promote fascism all over the globe, according to the files. Both schemes were concocted in the dying months...
11:36 AM, Apr 04, 2011
London: Britain may have masterminded a plot to kill Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin after the First World War, new documents suggest. For a century, the story was dismissed as fiction. But 90 years on, new documents indicate that Robert Bruce Lockhart -- London's representative in Moscow -- was involved in a plot which saw Lenin shot twice by a Russian woman in 1918. The story of this plot was taught...
05:27 PM, Mar 22, 2011
Shizugawa: Growing up in this small fishing town on Japan's northeastern coast, 16-year-old Minami Sato never took the annual tsunami drills seriously. She thought the town's thick, two-story-high harbor walls would protect against any big wave. Besides, her home was perched on a hilltop more than a mile (about two kilometers) from the water's edge. It was also just below a designated "tsunami refuge" - an elevated patch of grass...
03:46 PM, Mar 16, 2011
London: A World War II veteran has been issued the millionth new British passport free of cost as part of the special UK scheme for the war-time generation. Janet Varrall is the one millionth person to receive a new 'Scenic Britain' passport, since they were first issued last October. The 82-year-old woman is among the 700,000 World War II veterans to receive a free passport since the scheme began in...
08:18 AM, Feb 25, 2011
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