The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging | PBS News

Now, however, authorities are trying to keep traffic flowing on the Danube, which flows through 10 nations, as the dropping water levels create dangerous conditions. Experts have linked the unusually hot weather to global warming and other factors. 

Krsta Brandic, a Prahovo resident, said the low water levels have almost stopped ship traffic: "As you can see, the (big) ships can't pass anymore."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/the-danube-rivers-water-is-dropping-so-low-that-world-war-ii-ships-are-emerging

This World War II PSA Warned Us About Fascism

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MnA1ENeXH2I

Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for donuts. They were shot. - The Washington Post

"They weren't breaking a law — unless there's a law against being a Negro soldier," a legal advocate for the slain Black soldiers wrote in 1946. "They were visiting a Red Cross tent — on the post on which they were stationed — and were shot down by trigger-happy guards who had prejudice[d] orders not to allow Negro soldiers to talk to French women."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/15/allen-leftridge-black-soldier-segregation/

Federal Borrowing Amid Pandemic Puts U.S. Debt on Path to Exceed World War II - The New York Times

Federal debt, as a share of the economy, hit 98 percent in the 2020 fiscal year. Many economists are pushing lawmakers to add even more to it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/business/us-federal-debt.html

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The Greatest Generation sacrificed everything for our country. But Donald Trump wants to sacrifice them for the economy when they're in their greatest time of need.
https://youtu.be/XOty4J1b0FU

Pope Pius XII: Vatican records show he knew Nazis were killing Jews during Holocaust - The Washington Post

The long-awaited opening of Pope Pius XII’s wartime records lasted only a week before the coronavirus outbreak shut down the Vatican archives. But that was long enough for documents to emerge that reflect badly on the pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust, according to published reports.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/29/vatican-pope-pius-records-holocaust/

The Happiest Prisoners | Legion Magazine

In the shadow of Mount Baldy, where lodgepole pine and trembling aspen compete for space in Alberta’s spectacular Kananaskis Country, all that remains of a Second World War prisoner of war camp are weedy building foundations, a rundown guard tower and a restored commandant’s cabin. Here and at 25 other locations across Canada, 35,046 German soldiers, sailors, airmen and potential insurgents were incarcerated under a program one later called “the best thing that happened to me....”
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/

The devil’s pact: Putin, the alt-right, and the long shadow of history -- Salon

The Russian president's claims of "historical victimhood" in WWII try to justify his country’s present-day behavior....
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/31/the-devils-pact-putin-the-alt-right-and-the-long-shadow-of-history_partner/

On This Day: U.S. drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki - UPI.com

On August 9, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, three days after doing the same to Hiroshima.....
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/08/09/On-This-Day-US-drops-atomic-bomb-on-Nagasaki/5441502253580/

National Guard memo is ‘reminiscent of what led up to World War II,’ a top House Democrat says

The chairman of the House Democratic Caucus said Friday that reports that the Trump administration had considered deploying tens of thousands of National Guard troops to apprehend undocumented immigrants were “outrageous” and “very reminiscent of what led up to World War II.” Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) made the statement in an interview for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program shortly after the Associated Press broke news of the draft Department of Homeland Security memo....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/17/national-guard-memo-is-reminiscent-of-what-led-up-to-world-war-ii-top-house-democrat-says/?utm_term=.1b5d7b5accd6