He taught himself to be a pilot. During World War II, he designed a machine used to train military aircraft crews to fire guns at enemy aircraft.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

"On Flanders Field in World War I, She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun, She turned blood red in World War II She hung limp, and low, a time or two.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Christoph Waltz earned the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a Nazi colonel in the World War II film "Inglourious Basterds."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

During World War II, government officials had hidden the art in a German castle.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

And secondly Israel, even though itself, its people originally suffered a great holocaust - the great genocide of World War II - has not recognized it, again for strategic reasons, its connection with Turkey."

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Titled La Rafle,or The Roundup, the film takes a look at one of the darkest moments of France's World War II- era collaboration with Nazi Germany: the July,1942 arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

(MOIVE SOUND) Mixed in are harrowing memories shared by a generation of World War II veterans, like DiCaprio's character, as well as the Cold War tensions affecting so many lives in the 1950s.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

The Russian Intelligence Service is reportedly planning to publish documents showing what it calls Poland's aggressive intentions towards the Soviet Union ahead of World War II, and says at least one Polish minister was a German agent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"Historically it's one of the most important parts of the period of World War II in France,the roundup - the rafle du Vel dHiv - is a symbol of collaboration between the French police and the German occupying authorities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10