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In Crisis, Some Greeks Blame the Germans
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS (March 1) -- After first blaming their country's grave fiscal crisis on a feckless political elite, Greeks have redirected some of their ire to the Germans, reviving haunting memories of Greece's Nazi occupation. Greece, a chronic violator of European Union budget rules, is under intense pressure from its EU partners and international financial markets to slash its yawning budget deficit of 12.7 percent of gross domestic product, more than four times the EU cap of 3 percent. As the government in Athens scrimps and scrapes to cover that gap, beleaguered Prime Minister George ...
Pope Defends Predecessor Against Critics
By not in system - AOL NewsROME (Jan. 17) - In a synagogue visit haunted by history, Pope Benedict XVI and Jewish leaders sparred Sunday over the record of the World War II-era pope during the Holocaust and agreed on the need to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations. Both sides said the visit to the seat of the oldest Jewish community in the diaspora was an occasion to overcome what Benedict called "every misconception and prejudice." Signs of the Jewish community's tragic history were abundant, as the German-born Benedict stopped at a plaque marking where Roman Jews were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and at another ...
KGB Destroyed Hitler's Remains, Russian Says
By not in system - AOL NewsMoscow, Russia (Dec. 11) -- The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency's chief, a top Russian security official said this week. The head archivist of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) -- the successor to the former Soviet Union's KGB -- confirmed for the first time the chain of events that led to the disposal of Hitler's body, and who ordered the operation, in an exclusive interview with Russia's Interfax news agency. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov told Interfax in an interview published Monday ...
US Veteran Had Hitler's Art Exhibit Book
By not in system - AOL NewsDALLAS (Dec. 9) -- After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close. Making his way through the Berghof, Hitler's home near Berchtesgaden, Germany, Pistone noticed a table with shelves underneath. Exhilarated by the certainty of victory over the Nazis, Pistone took an album filled with photographs of paintings as a souvenir. "It was really a great feeling to be there and we knew, by that time, he was on his last leg," Pistone told The Associated ...
War Hero Can Keep His Flagpole
By not in system - AOL NewsRICHMOND, Va. (Dec. 9) -- A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner can keep his 21-foot flagpole in his front yard after a homeowners association dropped its request to remove it, a spokesman for Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Tuesday. Eva Russo, Richmond Times-Dispatch / APCol. Van T. Barfoot raises the flag Dec. 2 at his home near Richmond, Va. The Sussex Square homeowners association likewise has agreed to drop threats to take legal action against retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, Warner spokesman Kevin Hall said. The association had threatened to take Barfoot to court if he failed ...
One Man's Solemn Mission to Recover WWII Remains
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsAt first, it seemed like a sick joke or, worse, some sort of scam. The caller from North Carolina was telling John Lenox that the wreckage of his father's plane had been located. Staff Sgt. Alvin Lenox had been dead for two weeks longer than his 66-year-old son, John, had been alive. The Army Air Force radio operator crashed with four others in a cargo plane flying a supply mission from Yantai, China, to Joraht, India, in August 1943. They went down in a treacherous mountain region known as The Hump, which swallowed about 600 U.S. planes during World War II. Yet the fellow on the phone ...
Obama in Good Company on D-Day
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyBarack Obama went to Normandy for a reason this weekend -- and it was a good one. The president had something he wanted to convey to the world. That message, to paraphrase a point Ronald Reagan used to make, is a simple one, even if it's not an easy one: It is that freedom is not free, and that democracy is worth fighting for -- that sometimes human rights are worth dying for. ...
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