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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.

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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.

Cinema

Gladiator of Auschwitz: New film tells the story of Pole who boxed his way through hell

Gladiator of Auschwitz: New film tells the story of Pole who boxed his way through hell

Germany

Grave of top Nazi official dug up in Berlin

Heydrich's grave was unmarked, suggesting the perpetrators had insider knowledge.

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World War Two Battle of the Bulge re-enacted 75 years later

Hundreds of people took part in a re-enactment of the famous Battle of the Bulge to mark the 75th anniversary of the event that represented a turning point in World War Two.

Italy

Italy: 54,000 Brindisi residents evacuated as WWII bomb defused

More than 54,000 residents were evacuated from the southern Italian city of Brindisi as experts defused a British bomb dropped during WWII.

Poland

Merkel visits Auschwitz for the first time as chancellor

The Chancellor, accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during the visit, will bring a 60 million euro donation to help conserve the place where the Nazis ran their largest death camp.

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.

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Germany marks 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall

Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.

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Red Square military parade re-enacts historic 1941 march

More than 4,000 soldiers marched in Red Square to mark the 78th anniversary of the parade that sent Soviet fights to the front lines of World War Two.

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.

France

Sons of Polish navigator united with family who hid their father

Sons of Polish navigator united with family who hid their father in Nazi-occupied France

Germany

Former Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, goes on trial in Hamburg

Bruno D. was 17 years old when he served as a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp, in northern Poland. Now, he is on trial for aiding and abetting 5,230 cases of murder.

France

Ceremony honours fallen US soldiers in all-but-forgotten WWII battle

It might have been forgotten if it wasn't for some painstaking research.

Ukraine

Ivan the Terrible painting believed stolen during WWII found in US

"Secret Departure of Ivan the Terrible Before the Oprichnina" by Mikhail N. Panin and depicting the famous 16th-century Russian czar went missing from the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum in Ukraine during World War II.

Destinations

Exploring historic Normandy in château style

Visitors flock to Normandy each year to see for themselves the D-Day landing beaches and Bayeux tapestry. We mixed history with the high life.

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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.

France

Watch: 75 years on, Lyon celebrates its liberation from Nazis

Watch: 75 years on, Lyon celebrates its liberation from Nazis

Belgium

Brussels celebrates 75th anniversary of its WWII liberation

British troops reached the Belgian capital on September 3, 1944.

Poland

Watch again: Leaders mark 80th anniversary of Nazi invasion of Poland

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked Poland for its forgiveness for Nazi "tyranny".