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Unraveling the Mystery of the "Dead City"
A painting by Egon Schiele titled "Dead City" belonged to Fritz Grunbaum and his wife before they died in the Holocaust. A quarter of a century later the struggle for recovering art raided by the Nazis still lasts as heirs try to reclaim the work.
Tags: Austria; WWII; Leopold Museum; Eberhard Kornfeld; Otto Kallir; Vienna; seizure;
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On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of WWII
This book investigates the longest U.S. Army court-martial of WWII, in which 43 African-American soldiers were charged with rioting and 28 were convicted. The author reveals that an investigation done before the trial contradicts most of the testimony given during the court-martial.
Tags: Army; federal government; Defense; military; Leon Jaworski; courts; trial; World War Two
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Duty, Honor, Betrayal: How the U.S. turned its back on poisoned WWII vets
Zeman did months and months of research to tell the stories of U.S. army veterans who were exposed to poison gases as part of government experiments before and during World War II. In the early nineties, these stories came to light and the VA promised to help the affected veterans file claims and fight for compensation, but the agency never came through. This report found that the VA never fulfilled its pledge, and that many sick and dying veterans, affected by chemical experiments decades before, were left to handle their illnesses completely on their own.
Tags: military; mustard gas; Nuremburg; Anthony Principi; Pentagon; lewisite; gas chambers; Edgewood Arsenal; Department of Defense; Veterans Affairs
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One Horrific Day
CBS News 60 Minutes investigates the destruction and massacre of a Jewish community in Poland during WWII. More than one thousand Jews in the small town of Jedwabne died at the hands of their Polish neighbors.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Jan Gross; Jewabne; Poland; Jews; anti-Semitism; World War II; Holocaust; President Krasniewski
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Shortcut to Failure
More people than ever are taking the General Education Development (GED) test in America, but some are beginning to say the 60 year-old program is becoming useless. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago (where the program was originally created during WWII) believe the test to be at an 8th-grade reading and writing level, not that of a high school equivalency. Unfortunately many employers and universities recognize the GED certificate as equal to a high school diploma, "making the GED, in effect, the nation's largest high school." Murphy investigates how the GED has become the choice for many people, ages 16 - 24; and why some researchers believe the people with a GED are more likely to break rules, drop out of college, and have a higher job turnover rate.
Tags: Education; GED; high school
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Hitler's Lake
60 Minutes II examined one of Hitler's schemes during WWII: "160 Jewish prisoners were hand-picked from concentration camps and forced to work on forging the British pound note and later the American hundred dollar bill. At war's end, today's equivalent of $4.5 billion in pound notes was being circulated in Europe, Africa and South America. ... We located one of Hitler's last living counterfeiters, Adolf Burger. Not only was this gentleman able to tell us the story of the fake bills, but he also shared his own personal odyssey; one that began in Auschwitz with his wife and ended in Ebensee, Austria, five death camps later, a widower."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; WWII; Adolf Hitler; counterfeit; war
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OMYA and WWII
This story "traces a Swiss company's collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. The story details the problems encountered by Pluess-Staufer AG as a result of its business dealings with Nazi Germany during the war. Its OMYA subsidiary, the world's largest producer of calcium carbonate (a key mineral used in the manufacture of paint, paper, plastics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals) was charged by the French in late 1944 with collaborating with the enemy during the war. It was one of the largest cases of economic collaboration in the Department (state) of the Marne. According to company documents, the fine and 'confiscation of illicit profits' threatened the company's very survival. OMYA and Pluess-Staufer spent 13 years fighting the French decision before losing its final appeal in 1957. In Germany, the company encountered problems as well. The Allies froze Pluess-Staufer's assets in Karlsruhe when it discovered its business partner was a member of the SS."
Tags: Nazi; factories; WWII; economic collaboration; calcium carbonate; OMYA; Pluess-Staufer; Marne region; chalk quarry; purges
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When being Italian was a crime
Sarah Goodyear tells the story of how her grandfather Metropolitan Opera Basso Ezio Pinza and many other Italian Americans were wrongfully arrested and detained for being a Fascist sympathizer during WWII
Tags: World War II; immigration; Italian-Americans; Ezio Pinza; human rights
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Mustard Gas Series
During W.W.II Canadian servicemen were used as human guinea pigs for mustard gas experiments at Camp Suffield in Alberta, Canada. They were exposed to poisonous gases in gas chambers and field tests. Many suffered severe blisters, asthma, skin conditions and cancers. This series reports on veterans memories of the experiments and their subsequent suffering.
Tags: Jones Stephenson The secret war chemicals 30 pgs. AUDIO TAPE
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U.S. News and World Report chronicles seven African-American soldiers reccomended for the Medal of Honor for their accomplishments in World War II. The Army's review of its awards to blacks who fought in WWII did not begin until 1992, when Army leaders contracted with a team of military historians assembled to search the records. (May 6, 1996)
Tags: Galloway Debt of honor Black Soldier; White Army Korean War Vietnam Racism Segregation Spanish-American War World War I Distinguished Service Cross 12 pgs.