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War of 1812: British Canadians
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The only man to have been convicted in Britain of Nazi war crimes has died in Norwich prison. Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, was serving two life sentences after being found guilty of murdering 18 persons in the UK's first war crimes trial. The former British Rail ticket collector was found guilty in 1999 of crimes committed in his home town of Domachevo, Belarus.
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Other materials were selected to provide an idea of how the war was viewed by later generations, an issue as important in may ways as how it was seen by contemporaries. The portraits of Generals Brock, Drummond and Prevost by Berthon were commissioned by the Government of Ontario to commemorate the history of the province and the British connection. A generation later C.W. Jefferys was creating works of historical imagination which, in their romanticized view of history, helped shape the attitudes of school children through history texts.
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Germany's first fictional film about the Allied bombing of Dresden was screened on the 61st anniversary of the firestorm, in a fresh sign the country is finally confronting its own wartime suffering. "Dresden -- The Inferno" tells the story of how the architectural jewel in eastern Germany known as Florence on the Elbe was reduced to rubble within hours in the British and US bombing of February 13-14, 1945. At least 35,000 people perished, including hundreds of refugees who had fled the horrors of the Eastern front.
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