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Article of the day for August 29, 2020 is Commissioner Government . The Commissioner Government was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist puppet government established in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II from 30 April to 29 August 1941. It was headed by Milan Aćimović (pictured) and was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-communist. The Aćimović government was merely an instrument of the German occupation regime, carrying out its orders within the occupied territory without appearing to moderate its policies. The government actively assisted the Germans in exploiting the population and the economy, and its members regarded their own participation in the Holocaust as "unpleasant but unavoidable". By mid-July, the Germans had decided that the Aćimović regime was incompetent, and the Commissioner Government resigned at the end of August. It was succeeded by the Government of National Salvation, in which Aćimović initially retained the interior por...

Alice Koller, Author of the Solitary Life, Dies at 94

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By BY PENELOPE GREEN from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YJrKON

7 Takeaways From ‘Melania and Me,’ by the First Lady’s Former Friend

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By BY ELISABETH EGAN from NYT Books https://ift.tt/3hyZdCK

Kurt Andersen on ‘Evil Geniuses’

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By Unknown Author from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YK7TPl

Scattered Thunderstorms Tomorrow Weather!

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With a high of 76F and a low of 64F.

Children in a World Gone Mad: 5 Kids’ Books Set During World War II

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By BY ELIZABETH WEIN from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YIonaI

Missing the Classroom? These Novels Will Take You There

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By BY ELISABETH EGAN AND JOUMANA KHATIB from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2QA1qCe

New in Paperback: ‘The Testaments’ and ‘The Patient’s Checklist’

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By BY JENNIFER KRAUSS from NYT Books https://ift.tt/31C5Q1A

Hitler and the Holocaust

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By BY PETER FRITZSCHE from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2YJOq1b

War — What Is It Good For? Chemotherapy, Apparently

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By BY SCOTT ANDERSON from NYT Books https://ift.tt/3hwN69j

Letters to the Editor

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By Unknown Author from NYT Books https://ift.tt/2Qu9QuR

Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage

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By BY BENJAMIN SCHWARZ from NYT Books https://ift.tt/3lpfMDu

How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan

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By BY MARK PERRY from NYT Books https://ift.tt/31A76lI

Revisiting the ‘Emotional Hodge-Podge’ of ‘Catch-22’

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By Unknown Author from NYT Books https://ift.tt/3b487pg