Campaigner against rape during war remembered
A former Dutch prisoner of war on the island of Java, Jan Ruff-O’Herne, has died after spending her later years…
Tag: Second World War
Parachutists drop on Arnhem to mark 1944 disaster
Around 1,000 parachutists landed in the Netherlands at the weekend in a re-enactment of the failed Allied mission to end the Second…
Dutch war cemetery daubed with swastika
A large swastika has been daubed on a British and Commonwealth Second World War cemetery in the Netherlands. The Mierlo…
Russian Kuril missiles end Japanese island claims
Russia is planning to deploy additional missiles on two islands in the northern portion of the disputed Kuril chain off…
French Senate reveals Hitler bust in cellar
The French Senate says it is investigating the discovery of a bust of Adolf Hitler from the Nazi occupation in…
BBC reveals wartime coded messages to Poland and France
A BBC radio staff member during the Second World War was given a scratched record to play on-air and the…
China funds statue of Danish war hero
Bernhard Arp Sindberg, a guard at a cement factory in China called “the Shining Buddha” and “Greatest Dane”, rescued thousands…
Poland marks 80th anniversary of invasion
The heads of state of Poland and Germany are marking 80 years since the outbreak of the Second World War…
Germany relaxes citizenship rules for Nazi exiles
Germany has pushed through two reforms to help families of people who fled the Nazis to adopt German citizenship, after…
Europe marks 80 years since Nazi-Soviet ‘misery pact’
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was signed 80 years ago in a supposed neutrality deal…
Hitler’s HQ makeover plans condemned as Nazi Disneyland
Adolf Hitler’s headquarters during much of the Second World War is getting a makeover by the Polish authorities to attract…
Merkel hails example of failed Hitler assassins
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to confront populism, racism and anti-Semitism as she marked the 75th anniversary…
Last kaiser’s descendants try to reclaim family treasures
Descendants of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II have opened a legal battle to reclaim thousands of artworks and historic items from…
Looted Dutch still-life to be returned to Florence after 75 years
A celebrated still-life by an 18th-century Dutch master looted by Nazi forces during the Second World War will be returned…
Dutch railway agrees to pay Holocaust compensation
Thousands of Holocaust survivors and their families in the Netherlands are due to receive compensation from the Dutch state-run rail…
Greece demands billions in wartime reparations
Greece has formally asked Germany to enter negotiations over claims for reparations for the two world wars, while Berlin says…