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5 days ago · Three Israeli gunmen seized the West German Embassy and Culture Centre in Tel Aviv. They demanded the abolition of the West German statute of limitations whereby those accused of war crimes could not be tried after 1978.
May 26, 2024 · May 26, 2024. For nearly three decades, the Berlin Wall stood as a grim symbol of the Cold War divide between East and West. Constructed virtually overnight in August 1961, this concrete barrier split Germany‘s capital in two, separating families and trapping East Germans under strict communist rule.
May 9, 2024 · Berlin blockade, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post- World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. Cold War. Map of Cold War Berlin. Berlin airlift: How “candy bombers” saved West Berlin.
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May 24, 2024 · The movie “Escape From Germany,” a thriller about the evacuation of Latter-day Saint missionaries in 1939 before the Nazis invasion of Poland, surpassed $2 million at the box office this week.
1 day ago · The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers ( Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany ).
4 days ago · In 1980, the MP5 achieved an iconic status during the Iranian Embassy siege, when British Army Special Air Service operatives used MP5s with top-mounted flashlights to assault the embassy and rescue the hostages held inside.
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May 22, 2024 · Siege of Leningrad, prolonged siege (September 8, 1941–January 27, 1944) of the city of Leningrad ( St. Petersburg) in the Soviet Union by German and Finnish armed forces during World War II. The siege actually lasted 872 days.
