Tag: Second World War

The Vatican to 60 historians has opened its archives on the pope during the Second World War, Pius XII, who…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on his MPs to enshrine “God” and heterosexual marriage in Russia’s constitution. Critics see the…

The presidents of Israel and Poland have demanded efforts to address anti-Semitism as they marked 75 years since the liberation…

Auschwitz is marking the 75th anniversary by the Red Army towards the end of the Second World War, although Russian…

Russia and Poland have been arguing over the causes of the Second World War as the US aggravated the issue…

Poland is still grappling with the restitution of Jewish property confiscated by the Communist authorities after the Second World War….

Yvette Lundy, a French Resistance fighter who survived Nazi concentration camps after helping Jews escape France, has died aged 103….

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…