Serbia sent Friday its formal request to the U.S. for the extradition of Peter Egner, Justice Minister Snežana Malović told Tanjug.
Egner, a naturalized American citizen, is suspected of serving in a Nazi unit that killed around 17,000 Jewish and other civilians during World War II.
Russia has introduced to the UN a draft resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism and the desecration of World War II monuments. The UN General Assembly committee on social and humanitarian issues will vote on the document at the beginning of next week. The UN General Assembly, which usually supports the decision of the committee, will look at the resolution in mid-December.
A mass grave with the bodies of about 700 people killed after World War II was uncovered in northern Slovenia. This was confirmed by the Chief of the Slovenian Government’s Commission for the Exhumation of Mass Graves, Marko Štrovs.
1945: The United States becomes the first (and remains the only) country ever to use an atomic weapon in warfare, obliterating the Japanese city of Hiroshima and instantly killing 70,000 people. (Many thousands more would die later from the effects of radiation poisoning.) Three days later, the port city of Nagasaki is destroyed by a [...]
1948: A deadly explosion at German chemical conglomerate IG Farben’s Ludwigshafen plant on the Rhine River kills more than 200 people and injures more than 3,800 — 500 of them seriously. It violently interrupts the closing phase of the Nazi corporate conspirator’s post-war trial at Nuremberg. Two days later, the War Crimes Tribunal finds [...]
1943: In the middle of World War II, Los Angeles residents believe the Japanese are attacking them with chemical warfare. A thick fog that makes people’s eyes sting and their noses run has taken hold of the city. Visibility is cut down to three city blocks.
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Croatian President Ivo Josipović placed a wreath on the monument for the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). The members of the puppet-Nazi NDH forces were killed during World War II in Bleiburg, Austria.
Spending on electronics such smartphones, netbooks and LCD-TVs rose during 2009, despite the first post-WWII fall in global per capita income. Cash-strapped consumers will cut back on desirables such as restaurant meals, says iSuppli, but electronics remain must-haves.
– Electronics are a top priority even for cash-strapped consumers,
beating out other desirables when money becomes tight, according to a
March 18 report from iSuppli.
While 2009 worldwide per capita income declined by 2 percent the
first ever annual decrease in the post-World War II era re…
1942: A malignant but unfocused policy of persecution turns into one of outright mass extermination at the Wannsee Conference. In a meeting lasting a little over six hours at a villa in the fashionable Berlin suburb of Wannsee, Nazi bureaucrats agree on a plan to implement the “final solution to the Jewish question.”
No formal plan [...]
Georgian opposition parties are protesting a government decision to take down a huge World War II memorial complex in the city of Kutaisi. Opposition leaders and activists gathered today at the memorial complex, which was built in Soviet times to commemorate the victims and veterans of World War II.
1942: Nearly a year after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States fully into World War II, the Americans get around to imposing nationwide gasoline rationing.
A fuel shortage was not the problem. America had plenty of that. What it lacked was rubber. Both the Army and Navy were in desperate need [...]
The Pacific resort island of Saipan is reeling from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampage that ended at a World War II historical site. Public Safety spokesman Jason Tarkong says the violence
A majority of Americans surveyed believe dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II was the right thing to do, the AP reports. The support was weaker among Democrats, women, younger voters and minority voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
Why continue to look back at one of humankind’s bleakest moments?
WASHINGTON — The economy is finally showing signs of stabilizing in some regions of the country – especially in parts of the Northeast and Midwest – bolstering hopes of a broader-based recovery this year.
A Federal Reserve s…
In the biggest crapstorm to hit Germany since World War II, angry fans in Berlin have labeled Britney Spears’ weekend concert a ‘rip off’ after allegedly being treated to a poor performance by the overweight and out of shape “Circus” star.
German concertgoers even labeled the star ‘Dickney’ and ‘Speckney’ (’dick’ and ’speck’ both mean ‘fat’ [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — New U.S. home sales rose by the largest amount in more than eight years last month, in another sign the housing market is finally bouncing back from the worst downturn in decades.
The Commerce Department said Monday that sales rose 11 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 384,000, from [...]
