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USA

Watch: D-Day plane saved from scrap returns to Europe for anniversary

The C-47 had a lucky escape after being found in a restoration yard in Wisconsin. It would have been stripped for parts had its tail number not been checked.

21/05/2019

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

Germany

The 'candy bombers' who gave a besieged city hope

It was the first crisis of the Cold War. But the airlift that saved Berlin 70 years ago still resonates among Germans - and helped cement friendship between former enemies.

12/05/2019

Poland

Polish far-right protests against restitution of Jewish property

Polish far-right supporters protested against a US law that calls for the restitution of Jewish property.

11/05/2019

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Russia shows off military might at Victory Day parade

Russian troops celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany.

09/05/2019

Poland

Thousands take part in March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew led thousands in annual March of the Living from Auschwitz to Birkenau to honour Holocaust victims

02/05/2019

Poland

Thousands march in Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day

The annual March of the Living event commemorates the victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

02/05/2019

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

United Kingdom

Watch: Art installation on UK beach marks little-known WWII attack

The US 4th Infantry Division lost 749 men in the attack, four times as many as they did on D-Day.

29/04/2019

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

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UK beach art commemorates US troops in WW2 tragedy

Art installation commemorates US troops in 75th anniversary of Devon war tragedy

28/04/2019

Luxembourg

Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Jean dies aged 98

During his 36 years as Grand Duke, his country of half a million inhabitants wedged in between Belgium, Germany and France, turned from an industrial backwater into an international financial hub.

23/04/2019

Poland

Polish town slammed over 'atrocious revival of medieval anti-Semitism'

A town in Poland has been criticised after locals beat and burned a Judas effigy that was made to look like a stereotypical Orthodox Jew.

23/04/2019

Greece

Greece parliament demand Germany pay WWII reparations

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said demanding reparations is "a historic and moral duty and a duty in memory of the heroes of the past."

19/04/2019

Germany

Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt

It created a massive underwater blast when the police defused it.

14/04/2019

World News

Mussolini's granddaughter slams Jim Carrey over cartoon of ex-dictator

The Canadian-American actor — also an artist — posted a picture of the pair hanging from their feet with the caption: "If you're wondering what fascism leads to, just ask Benito Mussolini and his mistress Claretta."

01/04/2019

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

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

USA

Sailor pictured kissing nurse in iconic WWII photo has died

George Mendoza's claim to appear in the picture was verified using facial technology.

19/02/2019

Belgium

Watch in 360°: Weekend 'soldiers' relive the decisive battles of WWII

Be part of the action as 200 re-enactors meet to relive the Battle of the Bulge — Nazi Germany's last offensive in WWII.

15/02/2019