World War II

This week in history: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

April 17, 2018 By Special to People’s World

For four weeks, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.

Russia marks 75 years since Nazi surrender at Stalingrad

February 5, 2018 By Ben Chacko

With over a million deaths, it was history's bloodiest battle and started the Nazis on their long retreat back to Berlin.

Two new films, “Dunkirk” and “The Darkest Hour”: Who won the war?

January 19, 2018 By Michael Berkowitz

In the run up to the Academy Awards, two highly touted, vastly different popular films refocus attention on World War II.

Statues fall too in Ukraine, as fascists erase Soviet past

September 11, 2017 By Ben Chacko

Ukraine's Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko speaks to Ben Chacko about the wave of historical destruction engulfing his country.

Japanese American internment commemorated by a new oratorio

February 21, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

The project was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, that resulted in the forced removal and incarceration of around 120,000 Japanese...