Tag: Second World War

A Russian commission has recommended President Vladimir Putin pardon a 64-year-old Norwegian jailed for spying, amid hopes of a spy…

A former Dutch prisoner of war on the island of Java, Jan Ruff-O’Herne, has died after spending her later years…

Around 1,000 parachutists landed in the Netherlands at the weekend in a re-enactment of the failed Allied mission to end the Second…

A large swastika has been daubed on a British and Commonwealth Second World War cemetery in the Netherlands. The Mierlo…

Russia is planning to deploy additional missiles on two islands in the northern portion of the disputed Kuril chain off…

The French Senate says it is investigating the discovery of a bust of Adolf Hitler from the Nazi occupation in…

A BBC radio staff member during the Second World War was given a scratched record to play on-air and the…

Bernhard Arp Sindberg, a guard at a cement factory in China called “the Shining Buddha” and “Greatest Dane”, rescued thousands…

The heads of state of Poland and Germany are marking 80 years since the outbreak of the Second World War…

Germany has pushed through two reforms to help families of people who fled the Nazis to adopt German citizenship, after…

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was signed 80 years ago in a supposed neutrality deal…

Adolf Hitler’s headquarters during much of the Second World War is getting a makeover by the Polish authorities to attract…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to confront populism, racism and anti-Semitism as she marked the 75th anniversary…

Descendants of Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II have opened a legal battle to reclaim thousands of artworks and historic items from…

A celebrated still-life by an 18th-century Dutch master looted by Nazi forces during the Second World War will be returned…