World news about “World War II” published by euronews.
Czech Republic nuclear bunker turns Cold War museum Shortly to be added to the list of Europe’s most unusual tourist destinations, you too will soon be able to experience some of that Cold War chill in this… 18/05/2013
Wartime sex slaves were necessary, says Japanese politicianThe outspoken Mayor of Osaka and possible future Japanese prime minister has been criticised for controversial comments suggesting that the role of “comfort… 14/05/2013
Fine weather adds Victory Day sparkle to Moscow’s Red Square Parade Recent weeks have seen a certain political tension between Russia’s President Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev – but differences were put aside as… 09/05/2013
France and Poland mark 68th Victory in Europe The French President Francois Hollande was joined in Paris by his Polish counterpart, Bronislaw Komorowski, to mark the 68th Victory in Europe Day. They… 08/05/2013
Suspected former Auschwitz guard detained German police have arrested a suspected former Auschwitz death camp guard. Prosecutors in Stuttgart said a 93-year-old had been detained amid “strong… 07/05/2013
Anniversary of Poland’s May 3 constitution Poland is celebrating the anniversary of its constitution – the first in Europe and the second in the world after the United States. The 222-year-old… 03/05/2013
Poland marks 70th anniversary of Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis The Polish capital Warsaw has commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers during World War II. European… 19/04/2013
Schaeuble: Greek WWII reparation report ‘irresponsible’Less than a week after a top-secret document was leaked that suggested billions are owed by Germany to Greece in war reparations, Berlin has rejected the… 11/04/2013
Thousands join March of the Living to mark Holocaust Tens of thousands of people have taken part in this year’s March of the Living – a memorial to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The rally to honour the… 08/04/2013
Auschwitz: march of the living – nocomment The March of the Living, an annual silent tribute to victims of Holocaust, was held in Auschwitz on April 8. It is a three kilometre symbolic walk from the… 08/04/2013
‘TOP SECRET’ report may reveal Germany owes Greece billions of euros Greek newspaper To Vima claims a secret report details huge amounts of money owed to Athens by Germany for World War Two reparations and unpaid loans. The… 07/04/2013
WWII bomb found in Berlin An unexploded world war II bomb was found near Berlin’s main railway station, causing long delays on main railway lines and the closure of nearby roads on… 03/04/2013
Emperor explores US post war ties with Japan When Japan surrendered at the end of the second World War, the US Supreme Commander was tasked with deciding the fate of Emperor Hirohito. Tommy Lee Jones… 01/04/2013
Latvia: Waffen SS veterans’ commemorative march in Riga The annual march to honour Latvia’s World War II Waffen SS divisions, part of the armed wing of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, always attracts some… 16/03/2013
Painful journey of discovery in ‘Lore’ Lore, a new movie by director Cate Shortland, tells the tale of a girl whose assumptions about World War II are challenged. She explained: “I love the idea… 05/03/2013
Holocaust survivors mark Auschwitz liberation – nocomment Survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz gathered to commemorate the 68th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops in 1945. 28/01/2013
Polish WWII massacre film causes shockwaves Polish film Poklosie or Aftermath is a dramatisation of the massacre of more than 340 Polish Jews at Jedwabne in 1941. It has caused shockwaves and soul… 21/12/2012
67th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombingThe Japanese city of Nagasaki marks the 67th anniversary of the dropping of a US atomic bomb. The catastrophic event forced Japan’s World War II surrender. As… 09/08/2012
‘Stalingrad’ 3D IMAX movie all set to go Russia’s first big-budget 3D film in IMAX format has wrapped up shooting in a small village outside St Petersburg. The World War II Battle of Stalingrad… 03/08/2012
Who are the most wanted Nazis? In Budapest on May 2011 a suspected Nazi war criminal stood trial. He looked to be a vulnerable and frail old man, but Sandor Kepiro stood accused of… 16/07/2012
WWII Victory Day Following its battle for the presidency, France commemorated victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. For the first time, the outgoing and the new head of state… 11/05/2012
Russia celebrates WWII victory anniversaryIn Moscow’s Red Square, Russian servicemen taking part in a ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War… 09/05/2012
French movie shines light on role of Muslims in the resistance French movie, “Les hommes libres,” – ‘The Free Men’ – brings to the big screen the little known story of Muslim men and women who saved the lives of Jews… 29/09/2011
Turkish Passport WWII Jews’ salvation The film “The Turkish Passport” combines dramatic reenactments with documentary testimony to tell a little-known tale from more than 60 years ago, of how… 01/08/2011
Back in the Day: the evacuation of DunkirkMay 26, 1940. Surrounded by German troops, Allied soldiers began an evacuation from the beaches and harbour of the northern French port of Dunkirk. A German… 25/05/2011
66th anniversary of Victory Day in Belarus – nocomment Belarus celebrated the 66th anniversary of victory over fascism and the triumph of the Great Patriotic War as war veterans attended various special events. 10/05/2011
France’s President Sarkozy commemorates Victory in Europe Day in ParisFrance’s President Nicolas Sarkozy lays a wreath at the statue of Charles de Gaulle to commemorate the Victory in Europe Day of May 8, 1945, during a ceremony… 08/05/2011
Exhibition highlights dark side of Nazi Olympics Most people know about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich when Hitler had to shake Jessie Owen’s hand after he beat the master race over 100 metres. How… 23/02/2011
German bomber discovered on Baltic Sea bedThe wreck of a German WWII bomber has been found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near the Polish coast. The Ju-88 was a twin-motor bomber, and widely… 15/02/2013
Russia remembers StalingradRussia has been commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. For a few hours the city of Volgograd readopted its old name of Stalingrad to mark the 70th… 02/02/2013
Putin leads Stalingrad anniversary memorialsRussia is remembering the battle of Stalingrad, 70 years after the Nazi army surrendered, turning the tide of World War Two. President Putin held a… 02/02/2013
Spitfire searchers find water-filled crateIn Myanmar it is believed the first of a number of long lost Royal Air Force World War Two Spitfires has been found. American engineers are thought to have… 09/01/2013
Interactive map of the London BlitzA brand new interactive map has been published showing where every single bomb dropped on London by the German Luftwaffe landed in the Blitz of World War… 07/12/2012
UK seeks codebreaker for possible WW2 messageA dead pigeon found in the chimney of a Surrey home could have been carrying an important coded message. The UK’s government’s communications headquarters… 24/11/2012
What to do with the house Hitler was born inA debate continues in Austria over what do with the house that Adolf Hilter was born in. Some locals of the town near Salzburg where the three-storey building… 13/11/2012
Mafia WWII bomb supplier arrestedAn Italian fisherman has been arrested for supplying World War II explosives to the Mafia. Cosimo D’Amato supplied more than a ton of TNT, which he had… 12/11/2012
Rare WWII tank emerges from mud in PolandA rare World War II tank has been discovered under mud in the Warta river in eastern Poland. The British-made Valentine is a unique find since there are no… 27/10/2012
Roma victims commemoratedA memorial to the 500,000 Sinti and Roma people who were murdered by the Nazis has been inaugurated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It is intended to… 24/10/2012
Hollande opens Jewish memorial centre in DrancyFrance has inaugurated a memorial and museum to honour the memory of Jews deported during the second world war. President François Hollande went to Drancy… 21/09/2012
Polish authorities move to block crematorium close to former Nazi death campAuthorities in eastern Poland are attempting to stop a funeral company from building a crematorium close to the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek. The city… 12/09/2012
Munich residents survey damage after blast from the pastSeveral hundred residents in Munich were still waiting to be allowed home on Wednesday morning after the controlled explosion of a World War … 29/08/2012
Controlled World War II bomb blast shakes MunichGerman explosives experts in Munich have detonated an American bomb left over from the Second World War, but the force of the controlled explosion shook the… 29/08/2012
World War Two bomb found in WarsawAn unexploded Second World War bomb has been found during construction work on a metro line in Warsaw. Nearby buildings including Poland’s National Bank… 28/08/2012
Nazi descendants march together through death campsGrandchildren of Nazis together with Holocaust survivors and their descendants have begun a symbolic week-long march across Poland through the sites of former… 22/08/2012
Nazi suspect wins Australia extradition caseA suspected Nazi war criminal living in Australia has won a legal battle against extradition to his native Hungary, where he is accused of murdering a Jewish… 15/08/2012
Roma dead remembered at AuschwitzA ceremony has been held at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz on Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day. It marks the night of August 2 1944 when some 3,000… 03/08/2012
Hollande highlights French role in wartime round-up of JewsPresident Francois Hollande has recognised France’s role in the Holocaust at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of a notorious round-up of Jews. The… 22/07/2012
Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in HungaryHungarian prosecutors say they have taken Nazi criminal Laszlo Csatary into custody. The 97-year-old had been living openly in an apartment in… 18/07/2012
‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ not a sick joke says organiserFourteen finalists gathered in Israel on Thursday night for a controversial beauty pageant called ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’, which critics have denounced as… 29/06/2012
Anne Frank anniversaryIt is 70 years since Anne Frank made her first diary entry. The young Jewish girl – who received the diary as a present for her 13th Birthday on June 12… 12/06/2012
Poland demands Obama apology over ‘death camp’ slip-upPoland has complained after US President Barack Obama slipped up during a ceremony to honour a dead World War II hero. Obama described what he called a… 30/05/2012
Russia will stand up for itself, Putin tells Victory ParadePresident Putin has used the solemn occasion commemorating the end of World War II to assert Russia’s position on the world stage. In front of troops and… 09/05/2012
Sarkozy leads final Armistice day celebrationsMay is a month of public holidays in France, and the eighth is the day the country celebrates the 1945 armistice ending the Second World War in… 08/05/2012
Hitler’s Mein Kampf to be republished in GermanyAdolf Hitler’s infamous memoir Mein Kampf is to be reprinted in Germany for the first time in 70 years. According to newspaper reports the new addition is… 25/04/2012
French World War II Resistance hero Aubrac diesWorld War II French Resistance fighter Raymond Aubrac has died at the age of 97. His family said he passed away at the Val de Grace military hospital in… 11/04/2012
Nazi guard Demjanjuk dead at 91The former Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk has died at a care home in Germany aged 91. He was convicted by a court in Munich last year but was… 17/03/2012
Muere John DemianjukEl antiguo guardian del campo de concentraciàon de Polonia, John Demianjuk ha muerto en su casa de Alemania. 07/03/2012
WWII Graves desecrated in LibyaAmateur footage, posted on social networking sites showed armed men smashing the graves of British and Italian soldiers killed in World War Two. Libya’s… 04/03/2012
Dresden marks World War II bombingOn the anniversary of the Allied forces bombing of Dresden, protesters formed a human chain to try and prevent a neo-Nazi march from reaching the centre of… 14/02/2012
UN court rules against Italy’s Nazi claimsThe UN’s top court ruled on Friday that Germany has immunity from foreign lawsuits by victims of the Nazi regime seeking compensation. The 15-member… 03/02/2012
German legal threat to stop Hitler memoir extractsA British publisher is controversially planning to publish excerpts of Hitler’s memoir “Mein Kampf” in Germany, along with a critical commentary. But the… 21/01/2012
Pearl Harbor remembered 70 years laterCeremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have been held across the United States. It was the surprise attack on… 08/12/2011
Huge WWII bomb made safe in KoblenzA huge World War II unexploded bomb was one of two successfully defused on Sunday by German experts after the pair were discovered on the riverbed of the… 05/12/2011
Ukrainian Jews remember WWII massacreEvents are being held across Ukraine to mark the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed on the 29th and 30th September… 30/09/2011
Accused war criminal dies awaiting appealFormer Hungarian army captain Sandor Kepiro has died aged 97. He was accused of taking part in WWII’s Novi Sad Massacre but fled to Argentina before returning… 03/09/2011
Poland remembers Warsaw UprisingPoland on Monday paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the Warsaw Uprising against occupying Nazi Germany 67 years ago. Prime Minister Donald Tusk… 01/08/2011
Hungarian war crimes suspect clearedHungarian war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro was acquitted over World War II Nazi executions in Serbia on Monday. A Budapest Municipal Court cleared the… 18/07/2011
Romanian pogrom showed Nazis ‘how to do mass murder’Romania has marked the 70th anniversary of one of the worst pogroms of the Holocaust. Up to 15,000 Jews in the city of Iasi – a third of the total – were… 28/06/2011
Russian vigil for Patriotic WarAcross Russia, people have been marking the outbreak of war 70 years ago, when the Soviet Union was invaded by Hitler’s Germany in 1941. For other… 22/06/2011
Bulgaria’s Soviet liberation AmericanisedPutting a twist on liberation, a sculpture honouring the advance of the Soviet Red Army into Nazi-allied Bulgaria in World War II has been given a make-over… 20/06/2011
Court frees Demjanjuk after finding him guiltyA court in Munich has freed 91-year-old John Demjanjuk just hours after finding him guilty of being an accessory to mass murder during his time at the Sobibor… 12/05/2011
Back in the Day: Churchill enters No.10May 10, 1940. Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At 65 years old he was seen as the best person to lead the country through… 09/05/2011
Massive show of military might in RussiaRussia has marked the 66th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany with an impressive display of its military might. The Prime Minister and President… 09/05/2011
Victory Day marks the ending of World War IIOn the eve of commemorations in Russia for the end of World War II, President Dmitry Medvedev met veterans at a ceremony in Moscow’s Armed forces… 09/05/2011
Trial of ‘most wanted’ Nazi war crime suspect startsThe world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect has gone on trial in Hungary. 97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro struggled into the Budapest court to face… 05/05/2011
Germans commemorate Dresden deadThousands of Germans gathered in the eastern city of Dresden on Sunday, not just to remember the horrific bombing of the city by the allies in 1945, but to… 13/02/2011
Kantor deplores ‘anti-Israelism’On the eve of the anniversary of the opening of the gates of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, euronews interviewed Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor… 26/01/2011
Auschwitz rememberedSixty-six years ago Auschwitz stopped functioning. This is commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The biggest… 26/01/2011
La SNCF exprime ses regrets pour son rôle dans la ShoahLors d’une cérémonie organisée à Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), le président de la SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, a reconnu le passé sombre de la compagnie. Celui-ci a… 25/01/2011
Nuremberg trial exhibition marks 65th anniversaryThe German town of Nuremberg is marking the 65th anniversary of the trials held there against Nazi leaders at the end of the second world… 22/11/2010
Art Nazis called “degenerate” displayed in BerlinEleven sculptures condemned by the Nazi regime as “degenerate” and believed to have been lost or destroyed have been unearthed and are now on display at the… 17/11/2010
Nazis found ‘safe haven’ in US says secret reportHow could Hitler’s henchmen have found a “safe haven” in the United States? Full transparency is being demanded after a secret report revealed Nazis were… 15/11/2010
Request to probe Vatican Bank over holocaust lootThe European Commission has been asked to investigate allegations that the Vatican bank helped launder the proceeds from property plundered by the Nazis… 27/10/2010
Book claims German diplomats active in HolocaustGermany’s Foreign Ministry played a far more active role in the Holocaust than previously thought, a new book reveals. ‘‘The Office and the Past’‘ claims… 26/10/2010
Unprecedented Hitler exhibition in BerlinWhy did so many people follow Hitler under the Nazis? That is the question the German Historical Museum in Berlin is trying to answer with an unprecedented… 15/10/2010
Russia gives Poland more files on Katyn massacreRussia has handed over to Poland a further batch of secret documents on the World War Two Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish nationals. 20 volumes of… 23/09/2010
Submarine find recalls World War two tragedyA deep sea discovery could bring to the surface fresh details of a Second World War tragedy. Off the coast of Romania, divers believe they have located the… 13/09/2010
Rare film shows London in the Blitz, 70 years agoRare colour film has been released to mark the 70th anniversary of the WW2 bombing of London – the Blitz. On 7th September 1940, Hitler sent waves of aircraft… 07/09/2010
Churchill’s Battle of Britain speech rememberedWinston Churchill called it Britain’s “finest hour” – and it came to be seen as a turning point in World War II. 70 years on, the Battle of Britain is being… 21/08/2010
Japan apologises to South KoreaJapan has offered another apology to South Korea for the suffering inflicted during its colonisation of the Korean peninsula up to the end of World War … 10/08/2010
Nagasaki rememberedA bell was tolled marking the moment 65 years ago when the US exploded an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. An estimated 80,000 people were… 09/08/2010
Ukraine’s March of LifeA group of German descendants of Nazi soliders held a ceremony in Ukraine where many Jews were executed during World War Two. In September 1941, German… 06/08/2010
Poland remembers the fallen of Warsaw fightbackPoland has been remembering the tragic Warsaw uprising when thousands died in the doomed fightback against Nazi occupation in 1944. The President-elect of… 01/08/2010
66th anniversary of bomb plot to kill HitlerA failed war-time plot to kill Adolf Hitler has been commemorated at a ceremony in Berlin. Operation Valkyrie was hatched by disillusioned army officers who… 20/07/2010
France and UK remember de Gaulle broadcastThe British and French leaders led the commemorations in London on the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s historic wartime call to resistance from the… 18/06/2010
Sarkozy in UK to mark de Gaulle’s wartime appealPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has honoured war veterans in London, 70 years after Charles de Gaulle’s rousing radio address from the city to Nazi-occupied France… 18/06/2010
Sarkozy to mark anniversary of WWII broadcastsA specially-chartered train is heading to London for a major anniversary tribute to French wartime resistance leader Charles de Gaulle. It was June 18, 1940… 18/06/2010
“Dunkirk” spirit revived 70 years onThe last time they embarked on this crossing, it was a lot less peaceful. For the second time in history, dozens of the famous “Little Ships” have left… 27/05/2010
A military parade in central Moscow to mark victory over Nazi GermanyRussia has marked victory over Nazi Germany 65 years ago with a military parade in central Moscow. President Dmitry Medvedev looked on at what has been… 09/05/2010
