Germany Berlin museum centering on Germans expelled after WWII opens The project centers on the millions of Germans who fled from advancing Soviet forces or were kicked out of parts of eastern and central Europe as Germany's borders were moved westward after the war. 21/06/2021
Germany Last of Soviet soldiers who liberated Auschwitz dies at 98 As a young Red Army soldier, David Dushman flattened the forbidding electric fence around the notorious Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank on Jan. 27, 1945. 07/06/2021
Russia George Blake, notorious Soviet Cold War double agent, dies at 98 Blake was jailed in the 1960s for betraying the British foreign intelligence service but escaped and spent the rest of his life behind the Iron Curtain. 26/12/2020
Switzerland Swiss to evacuate village threatened by vast WWII explosive depot A risk assessment of the underground depot carried out over the previous two years said it presents "unacceptable" risks based on current safety regulations. 07/12/2020
Uncovering Europe Nuremberg trials: 75 years on from world's first war crimes tribunal Nuremberg: How the world's first war crimes trial revealed the scale of the Nazi Holocaust 20/11/2020
Norway Nazi warship found 80 years after being sunk off Norwegian coast The shipwreck was detected by an energy company using sonars to inspect undersea power cables. 11/09/2020
United Kingdom World War II singer and 'forces sweetheart' Dame Vera Lynn dies at 103 Among Lynn's biggest hits were sentimental favorites such as "We’ll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover". 18/06/2020
United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth says streets are 'filled with love' in VE Day speech Queen Elizabeth marked the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday with a rare public address to the British public. 08/05/2020
Belgium Veteran, 98, goes on VE Day walk to save former soldiers' club George Sutherlands says he has been inspired by the heroics of Captain Tom Moore who has raised millions of pounds for the UK health service amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 08/05/2020
state of the union Europe's week: Recession, resource pooling and racing for a vaccine This week the EU was busy raising pledges for vaccine research and being blunt about the bloc's economic outlook. 08/05/2020
Russia Russian WWII veteran starts charity appeal inspired by UK's Tom Moore Zinaida Korneva, 97, has launched a Youtube channel with videos in which he tells of her trials as a WWII Red Army officer. 08/05/2020
Germany Volunteers search for missing soldiers 75 years after Second World War Volunteers work to dig up bodies in Klessin, Germany to bring closure to families whose loved ones have only ever been a statistic. 05/05/2020
United Kingdom Paul Farnes, the last Battle of Britain flying ace, dies aged 101 Farnes was known as a flying ace for shooting down more than five enemy planes during the battle to protect Great Britain from Nazi air raids. 30/01/2020
Europe News Locals still searching for answers over Jewish cemetery attack 'We don't know why they attack (the graves), they are dead,' said one local in the community near Strasbourg. 24/01/2020
world news EU condemns Putin's attempt to 'rewrite history' in dispute over WWII "The EU commission fully rejects any false claims that attempt to distort the history of the Second World War or paint the victims like Poland as perpetrators," said EU commissioner Věra Jourová. 15/01/2020
Germany Grave of top Nazi official dug up in Berlin Heydrich's grave was unmarked, suggesting the perpetrators had insider knowledge. 16/12/2019
Germany German children fish out WWII ammunition from pond The three children reeled out ammunition and bullet fragments from the pond by using a strong magnet, local police said in a statement. 17/11/2019
France French Resistance member Yvette Lundy dies at 103 Born in 1916 in a small village in the northeastern department of Marne, Lundy started from 1940 to supply fake papers to Jews, men fleeing the Nazi regime's compulsory labour service (STO) or escaped prisoners of war that one of her brothers — who died after being deported — was hiding on his farm. 04/11/2019
Europe News Brussels marks 75th anniversary of liberation from German occupation The liberation of Brussels took only a few hours and saw only a little combat. Freeing the city was symbolic, but its historic importance lives on in the Belgian capital. 04/09/2019
Belgium Brussels celebrates 75th anniversary of its WWII liberation British troops reached the Belgian capital on September 3, 1944. 03/09/2019
Russia Unexploded WWII bomb found in Kremlin Vladimir Putin's schedule was not interrupted by the removal of the bomb. 15/08/2019
Poland French soldiers seen illegally diving in WWII wreckage, says Poland The wreckage of the German "Wilhelm Gustloff" ship, sunk by a Soviet submarine in January 1945, has been a war grave since 1994. Under Polish law, diving is strictly prohibited within a 500-metre radius of the site. 18/06/2019
United Kingdom Watch: UK bomb disposal experts detonate WWII mine at sea A fishing vessel reported catching the two-metre-long wartime sea mine in its nets on Saturday. 19/05/2019
Netherlands Dutch queen tried to swap Nazis for Belgian king Queen Wilhelmina asked her foreign minister in 1945 to "sound out" if a deal was possible, according to a report based on a newly-released book of her former foreign minister's diaries. 30/04/2019
Germany German archeologists unearth 400 artefacts from Nazi mass murder site More than 200 forced labourers were killed by Nazi troops in March 1945 in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia. Only 14 have been identified. 09/03/2019
Europe News The Brief: saving time, Croatia's euro bid and WW2 war reparations In this edition EU daylight savings time change hits a snag, Croatia's bid to join the eurozone gets a boost and Poland calls for WW2 war reparations from Germany. 29/10/2018
