Liechtenstein Liechtenstein demands Prague stop recognising its citizens as German Prague recognition of Liechtenstein citizens as German allows it to retain property seized after the Second World War. 20/08/2020
United Kingdom VJ Day: UK marks 75th anniversary of 1945 Japanese surrender Boris Johnson laid flowers of remembrance and observed a two minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum. 15/08/2020
Japan ‘Deep remorse’: Japan marks 75th anniversary of WWII surrender Japan's Emperor Naruhito expressed “deep remorse” over his country’s wartime actions, pledging to reflect on the war's events and expressing hope that the tragedy would never be repeated. 15/08/2020
United Kingdom Johnson hosts Macron in London for de Gaulle anniversary Boris Johnson hosts Emmanuel Macron on the 80th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's famous speech from WWII 18/06/2020
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
no comment Ceremony honouring the fallen on D-Day in Normandy A small ceremony was held on Saturday morning at Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-Sur-Mer on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings, to honour the sacrifice of those who died. 06/06/2020
View The EU cannot afford to keep Romania in quarantine when it reopens the Schengen zone ǀ View 18/05/2020
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
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
Switzerland Swiss village faces decade-long evacuation over WW2 weapons dump A Swiss village may have to be evacuated for 10 years, after authorities decided a huge Second World War weapons store nearby needed to be removed 27/02/2020
World Yalta Conference: How the post-War order was decided Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met in Crimea on February 4, 1945. They carved up Germany, Europe and reshaped the world order. 04/02/2020
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
no comment Auschwitz survivors commemorate the 75 anniversary of liberation The wreath-laying ceremony with the participation of former prisoners and Polish president Andrzej Duda inaugurated the commemoration of the Auschwitz Nazi Death camp's liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945. 27/01/2020
World Holocaust history is being re-written - historians are fighting back New narratives aim to whitewash he role of non-Germans in the killing of Jews. 27/01/2020
