3+ hour, 32+ min ago  (341+ words) The 2000 Year Old Man is turning 100 NEW YORK " The 2000 Year Old Man is turning 100. Mel Brooks on Sunday will celebrate his centennial birthday. The comedian and filmmaker has been awaiting the milestone. Earlier this year, Judd Apatow titled his retrospective…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (55+ words) The Washington Post KANCHANABURI, Thailand " A depot on World War II's infamous "Death Railway" has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to western Thailand to survey the remnants of…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (101+ words) The Washington Post Joe Klein writes the Sanity Clause newsletter on Substack. The winter holidays of 1945-46 must have been a jolly time for the Greatest Generation. Many of them had just come home from the war and were reunited with…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (74+ words) The Washington Post A postcard found on a World War I soldier led to his identification and a family reunion more than a century later ZONNEBEKE, Belgium " A postcard belonging to a World War I soldier whose body was found…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (124+ words) The Washington Post Katja Hoyer is the author of "Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe," published this week. The ghosts of Germany's past are everywhere these days. In the United States, critics of President Donald Trump have so often…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (107+ words) The Washington Post Clare Mc Hugh is the author of the historical novel "The Romanov Brides." "This is a thing which is unbearable," Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary in May 1942. Although the Jewish communities in most other German cities…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (94+ words) The Washington Post A husband and wife exchanged hundreds of letters during the war, but little is known about them. Could a new movie change that? Louis "Speedy" Weber was 25 in June 1944 when he crossed the English Channel as part…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (120+ words) The Washington Post Among the dwindling number of Pearl Harbor survivors is Freeman Johnson, who is considered the oldest among them CENTERVILLE, Mass. " On the day of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country's oldest living survivor of the Japanese bombing…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (87+ words) The Washington Post Historians rate Eisenhower more highly decades after his presidency. Churchill did too. Evan Thomas is the author of "Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II." A year after Dwight D. Eisenhower…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (59+ words) The Washington Post BERLIN " Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died at the age of 101, authorities in his home region…...