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USA

New trove of father's letters released to mark Anne Frank's 90th birthday

New trove of father's letters released to mark Anne Frank's 90th birthday

12/06/2019

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

World News

'Ghost Army' veterans recall secret World War Two mission

Veterans of the secret ‘Ghost Army’ tasked with deceiving Nazi forces with decoy tanks have been recalling their extraordinary role in World War Two.

29/04/2019

United Kingdom

British MP says he doesn't regret comparing Brexiteers to Nazis

David Lammy quoted Winston Churchill, who in 1938 said: "We must not appease Hitler".

14/04/2019

Germany

Wealthy German family to donate €10 million after Nazi era discovery

The Reimann family — worth a reported €33 billion — said they were "all ashamed and turned as white as the wall" upon hearing the extent of their ancestors' support to the Nazi regime.

25/03/2019

Poland

Auschwitz visitors told not to balance on train tracks for photos

Auschwitz Memorial told visitors in a Tweet "there are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportations of hundreds of thousands to their deaths".

20/03/2019

Belarus

Mass grave found in Belarus

Building workers in Belarus have uncovered the remains of almost 800 bodies in a mass grave at a site of a former Jewish ghetto

28/02/2019

Belgium

Germany 'still pays UK and Belgian pensioners who served in SS'

Those who pledged loyalty to Hitler are still being rewarded more than 70 years on.

20/02/2019

World News

Europe briefing: Five stories to know about today

Euronews brought you the latest news and updates as they happened this morning.

19/02/2019

USA

Holocaust camp survivor, liberator sit side-by-side at SOTU speech

A Holocaust survivor and one of the soldiers who liberated the German concentration camp he was imprisoned at sat side-by-side during US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

06/02/2019

Russia

Huge parade to mark 75th anniversay of Leningrad siege

Huge parade to mark 75th anniversay of Leningrad siege

27/01/2019

Germany

Nazi-looted painting returned to heirs of French resistance fighter

French politician and resistance fighter Georges Mandel was killed in 1944.

08/01/2019