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In 1942, with World War II raging, a team of scientists visited the quiet farming communities in Bear Creek Valley. They found a 60,000-acre tract of land that met military requirements of isolation, water and rail access and abundant electric power. The landowners were ordered to move off their lands quickly and the building of plants for the top secret wartime project began. The creation of the secret city of Oak Ridge began in 1942 as a major site of the ¡§Manhattan Project,¡¨ which was the massive wartime effort that produced the world¡¦s first atomic weapons.
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[F]or the first time since World War II, America surpassed Japan, long thought of as the workhorse of the industrialized world. Work hours there dropped to about the same level as in the United States — and this is in a nation that once whipped itself into such a business-centric frenzy that it coined a term, karoshi, that literally means "death from overwork."
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U.S. intelligence officials learned within months of the U.S. entry into World War II that Nazi Germany planned mass killings, scholars reviewing newly declassified reports said Thursday. But the U.S. government gave the information low priority in August 1942, the scholars concluded, not acknowledging that Germany had a plan to exterminate Jews until six months later.
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In the six decades since the end of World War II, a troubling question debated again and again is why did the German man in the street quietly assent to the unspeakable genocide Adolf Hitler unleased against the Jews? Some have gone so far as to suggest genetic anomalies within the German people that incline them towards barbarism.
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A new documentary film, Aleut Story, includes this testimony from Bourdukofsky and other Aleuts in chronicling the little-known internment of 881 Alaska Natives from the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands during World War II. Many in the film are speaking publicly for the first time about their experiences in the camps, where they were sent after troops from Japan invaded Alaska's western outposts in June 1942.
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The words are attributed to Winston Churchill, the prime minister of Great Britain who led his country through its darkest days of World War II. On Friday, a crowd of some 400 to 500 well-wishers gathered on the museum's grounds here cheered and applauded when they learned that the museum's darkest days are over. To read more, click here.
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