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World War II History
World War II History
1942 - During World War II, Germans and Italians took control of unoccupied Vichy France.
1992 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin told U.S. senators in a letter that Americans had been held in prison camps after World War II. Some were "summarily executed," but others were still living in his country voluntarily.
1989 - Melissa Etheridge and Joe Cocker entertained Germans that were celebrating the newly tumbled Berlin Wall.
| "Fuhrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!" Benito Mussolini - (to Adolf Hitler) October 28, 1940 |
