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Papers which document a restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg.

In the closing days of World War II, America looked up to three five-star generals as its greatest heroes. George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur personified victory, from the Pentagon to Normandy to the Far East. Counterparts and on occasion competitors, they had leapfrogged each other, sometimes stonewalled each other, even supported and protected each other throughout their ...

Het monument voor geallieerde militairen in Leuth (gemeente Berg en Dal) herinnert de inwoners aan de militairen uit Amerika, Canada en het Verenigd Koninkrijk die omgekomen zijn in de streek van hedendaags Leuth tijdens operaties 'Market Garden' en 'Veritable', tussen 1944 en 1945. De namen van de 51 slachtoffers luiden: Edward F. Baker Jr., Warren W. Becker, William Arthur Boate, James Christie Brown, ...

The powerful, disturbing and highly acclaimed account of a British officer in the Parachute Regiment, of part Yugoslav origin, painfully caught up in the savage maelstrom of the Bosnian war. Milos Stankovic worked as an interpreter and liaison officer for senior British commanders and two British UN generals - Mike Rose and Rupert Smith. Armed with the pseudonym 'Mike Stanley' he was propelled from ...

Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter, are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility ...

Members of the Polish air force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Air Force's most successful aces. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - downed more German planes ...