Tag: WWII

Thousands of historical photos and documents from the Holocaust are now available online, thanks to a collaborative project from Google and Israel's Yad Vashem memorial. The initiative, which launched yesterday, will allow users to search through 130,000 photos from the Jerusalem-based institute, which houses the world's largest collection of Holocaust documents. With the help of experimental ...

Share Hackers recently defaced the digital "Book of the Dead" and other portions of a website dedicated to the Buchenwald concentration camp, and completely erased all traces of a second site dedicated to the Mittelbau Dora camp. The attacks, targeting these grim reminders of Nazi horrors, were carried out by people who, we assert, are technically called "scum." Gone were the digital memorials ...

Footnote, a site that specializes in digitizing historical documents, has partnered with the National Archives to provide access to boatloads of World War II-related documents. Footnote has scanned documents, including enlistment records, patrol reports, photos, and missing crew reports, and is providing text based searching of the archives. The National Archives records are often incomplete, ...

If Switched was around in the 1940's, and if we all had access to highly classified information, we would have been raving about Colossus as the hottest piece of tech in the world. Created in 1943, the vintage computer was about the size of a school bus and relied on wheels and paper tapes for input rather than multi-touch screens and voice recognition. So today it's a bit obsolete, a fact that ...