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  1. Courthouse News: California museum sued over Renaissance painting looted by Nazis. “The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, faces a new lawsuit to recover a pair of life-size Renaissance paintings confiscated by the Nazis when the Jewish owners had to flee the Netherlands in 1940.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/16/courthouse-news-california-museum-sued-over-renaissance-painting-looted-by-nazis/
  2. Show this to Pete Hegseth saying "see all that planning and thought? That's what you didn't do..."

    It's amazing how far we've come in predicting the weather, now we know for certain how fucked we are....

    imdb.com/title/tt32547691/

    #PressureMovie #WWII #Cinema

  3. Iowa vs. Yamato: America’s and Japan’s Best Battleships, Head to Head

    Summary and Key Points – Yamato-Class Battleship vs. US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship: For twenty-six months, the two most…
    #EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Battleship #Battleships #history #Iowa-class #Military #navy #Nihon #USmilitary #usnavy #worldwarII #WWII #Yamato-class
    europesays.com/japan/91951/

  4. Dick Winters never called himself a hero. This memoir shows why real leaders don't need to.
    #books #bookreview #DickWinters #WWII
    smpl.is/amter

  5. Dick Winters never called himself a hero. This memoir shows why real leaders don't need to.
    #books #bookreview #DickWinters #WWII
    smpl.is/amter

  6. Dick Winters never called himself a hero. This memoir shows why real leaders don't need to.
    #books #bookreview #DickWinters #WWII
    smpl.is/amter

  7. Wednesday, August 26, 2026

    Russian drone strikes border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova . . . . . "He's sort of like Hitler" — Trump's ex-Ukraine envoy Kellogg warns Putin won't stop at Donbas . . . . . US snubs joint UN rebuke of Russian strikes against Ukraine — again . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  8. The Supermarine Walrus served with the Argentine Naval Aviation (Aviación Naval Argentina) during the 1940s and 50s, providing the navy with a versatile amphibious aircraft capable of operating from both land bases and the sea.

    Argentina acquired two aircraft in 1940 and a further eight from 1946 to 1950.
    destinationsjourney.com/histor #aeroplane #AirSeaRescue #Aircraft #airplane #amphibian #ArgentineAirForce #ArgentineNavy #aviation #biplane #rescueplane #SecondWorldWar #WorldWarTwo #WW2 #WWII

  9. The Water Women: A Novel "In 1930s Sardinia, Allegra and her daughters maintain the tradition of the water women" Sale: $4.99 to $2.49 by Bonnie Blaylock Rating: 4.4/5 (10,168 Reviews) #books #historicalfiction #women #sardinia #wwii #jewish #motherhood #family #sea #craft #byssus #booksky

    The Water Women: A Novel

  10. The Girl Behind the Gates "The gripping, heartbreaking historical bestseller based on a true story" Sale: $15.99 to $0.99 by Brenda Davies Rating: 4.6/5 (58,995 Reviews) #booksky #books #historicalfiction #wwii #holocaust #womensfiction #bestseller #kindle #tearjerker #truestory

    The Girl Behind the Gates

  11. 🔊 "Hitler kaputt (v1)"

    by Annelieses Zerstörung unter gefrorenen Monden (AZugM)

    is actually a speech by Hitler converted to a harsh noise / ambient track

    Preview image: Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky with Hitler's chopped off head

    #FckNZS #Noise #HarshNoise #HarshNoiseWall #HNW #Ambient #DarkAmbient #Poetry #Antifa #AudioArt #Audio #Art #WW2 #WWII #War #Hitler #Russia #History #weird #strange

  12. 💜 Couples 💜

    Jozef Garlinski & Eileen Short

    "I shan't make any attempt to get away, I shall stay in Warsaw. I will wait for you"

    On the 1st of September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland. 25-year-old Christian Pole Jozef Garlinski had just fallen in love with Eileen Short, an Irish nurse on an exchange visit from Liverpool. His colonel gave him an hour's leave to get married before the regiment left for the front. Eileen's parting words to Jozef were her commitment to wait.

    Jozef joined the Polish underground resistance. He was arrested in April 1943 + arrived at Auschwitz in May. Eileen remained in Warsaw. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 she helped care for wounded. The German SS captured + shot anyone who looked like a soldier or who was wearing an armband. Eileen survived only because her red cross armband had falllen off + was stuffed in her pocket. The survivors were taken to a camp for civilians near the city. She escaped from the camp + spent the next few months with relatives of Jozef..

    Jozef + Eileen had decided before the war that if they were separated + the Soviets took over Poland they would head for the West + contact each other through Eileen's mother in Ireland. Their plan was successful, both reaching London where they settled + raised their son.

    #couples #resistancefighters #lovestories #valentines #valentinesday #alovestory #warstory #wwii

  13. Reihe „Kino mit Tino – ein persönlicher Kanon“: Dieses Mal gibt es ein Kriegsgefangenendrama von Nagisa Ōshima.
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    – Wann: Do., 18. Dezember, 20.00
    – Wo: ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨Filmgalerie Phase IV, #DresdenNeustadt
    – Eintritt frei, wir freuen uns über eine Spende
    – Fassung: Der Film läuft in der englischen/japanischen Originalfassung mit engl. Untertiteln
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    Ein britischer Offizier, gespielt von niemand geringerem als David Bowie, gerät in japanische Kriegsgefangenschaft während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Der Film erzählt vom Ringen zweier sehr unterschiedlicher Kulturen um Werte im Rahmen einer Extremsituation. … (1/2)

    #NagisaOshima #DavidBowie #RyuichiSakamoto #Japan #JapanCinema #JapanFilm #Drama #Kriegsfilm #Kriegsdrama #WarMovie #WarFilm #WWII #Film ⁨⁨#Kino ⁨⁨⁨#Movies ⁨⁨⁨⁨#Cinema ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinemastodon ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#DresdenBubble

  14. Reihe „Kino mit Tino – ein persönlicher Kanon“: Dieses Mal gibt es ein Kriegsgefangenendrama von Nagisa Ōshima.
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    – Wann: Do., 18. Dezember, 20.00
    – Wo: ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨Filmgalerie Phase IV, #DresdenNeustadt
    – Eintritt frei, wir freuen uns über eine Spende
    – Fassung: Der Film läuft in der englischen/japanischen Originalfassung mit engl. Untertiteln
    **********************************************
    Ein britischer Offizier, gespielt von niemand geringerem als David Bowie, gerät in japanische Kriegsgefangenschaft während des zweiten Weltkriegs. Der Film erzählt vom Ringen zweier sehr unterschiedlicher Kulturen um Werte im Rahmen einer Extremsituation. … (1/2)

    #NagisaOshima #DavidBowie #RyuichiSakamoto #Japan #JapanCinema #JapanFilm #Drama #Kriegsfilm #Kriegsdrama #WarMovie #WarFilm #WWII #Film ⁨⁨#Kino ⁨⁨⁨#Movies ⁨⁨⁨⁨#Cinema ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#cinemastodon ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#DresdenBubble

  15. Fils d'un père adhérent au #parti #nazi #NSDAP, et membre de la #Wehrmacht, immigré qu #Chili apres la #WWII

    Ses opinions :

    Pour :
    * autoriser le port d'armes pour les civils et
    * le droit de tirer sur les cambrioleurs
    * l’amnistie des militaires condamnés pour des tortures ou assassinat commis sous la dictature de #Pinochet
    * des #professeurs de #religion dans toutes les #écoles #publiques
    * rompre les relations diplomatiques avec la France

    Contre :
    * l'avortement , en toutes circonstances

  16. #HannaDiamond discusses her book #JosephineBakersSecretWar

    "Drawing on previously unseen material, Diamond reveals the vital role Baker played throughout the war, from counterintelligence work for the Allied landings in North Africa to serving in the French Air Force in 1944–45."

    live: youtu.be/sguNundQrNg

    #JoséphineBaker #BlackHistory #Résistance #résistantes #FreeFrench #FranceLibre #histFR #WWII #DeuxièmeGuerreMondiale #DeuxièmeBureau #books #livres @histodons @bookstodon

  17. Peoples of the internets: anyone know if a WWII-era “short snorter” roll that includes Charles Lindbergh’s signature is of interest to museums or collectors?

    This is from my grandfather, who was a navigator for the Marines in WWII.

    #WWII #WW2 #history #airmen #shortsnorter

  18. “An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Japanese officials said.”

    No aircraft or people were nearby and no one was injured. In true Japanese fashion, the taxiway is already repaired and back open.

    apnews.com/article/japan-airpo
    #japan #wwii #uxo #bomb #airport #aviation #kmi