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Astana hosts major military parade for WWII 80th anniversary

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev led commemorations marking 80 years since the end of World War II with a major military parade in Astana on Wednesday.

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EU marks WWII anniversary with Ukraine warning

The European Parliament commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Strasbourg on Wednesday, with tributes led by lawmakers and veterans alike.

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Watch: Protesters disrupt Dutch Liberation Day ceremony

A national ceremony in the Netherlands marking 80 years since liberation from Nazi occupation was briefly disrupted on Monday by pro-Palestinian protesters.

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Thousands gather in London to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day

London began four days of pageantry on Monday, marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day. British, NATO and Ukrainian troops marched together, where King Charles took the salute.

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Secret note hidden in Dachau-built violin discovered after 80 years

A message written from within Nazi concentration camp Dachau, which remained undiscovered for more than 80 years, has been found. It tells a tale of survival, craftsmanship, and reveals the only known musical instrument built inside the camp.

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Croatia remembers victims of WWII concentration camp

Official Croatian data show that more than 83,000 people were killed in the Jasenovac camp while Serbs say the numbers were much higher, possibly in the hundreds of thousands.

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82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the largest armed Jewish uprising during the Second World War. Today, the daffodil has become a symbol of commemoration.

Art

Tate Britain to return Nazi-looted artwork to Jewish collector’s heirs

Looted by the Nazis during World War II and lost for decades, a 17th-century masterpiece is finally returning to its rightful heirs.

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WWII bomb defusal operation causes hours of travel delays in Paris

Hours of travel delays and chaos ensues after an unexploded WWII bomb was discovered in France’s busiest train station in the capital, Paris.

France

102-year-old Frenchman seeks reparation for WWII forced labour

The centenarian was sent in 1943 from Marseille to Germany, where he worked unpaid for more than two years in a chemical plant. His lawyer says France would be in breach of international law by refusing to pay the sum.

Art

Art marked 'degenerate' by Nazis goes on show in Paris

The new show in the French capital uncovers the breadth of art censorship that the Nazi regime undertook under the guise of cultural purity.

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Dresden marks 80th anniversary of World War II Allied bombing

Dresden commemorated the victims of World War II and the destruction of the city eight decades ago with several events on Thursday.

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Work under way to mark 80 years since liberation of Auschwitz

More than 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz and historians say that most of them, about one million, were Jewish but the victims also included Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war.

Cinema

Film of the Week: 'A Real Pain' - A moving and funny Holocaust tour

Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars alongside a scene-stealing Kieran Culkin in this smart and deceptively profound exploration of generational trauma.

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Zelenskyy visits Poland after deal struck on WWII exhumations

Relations between the neighbours have been strained for decades by the World War II-era Volyn or Volhynia killings that took place between 1943 and 1945.

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Poland and Ukraine agree to exhume WW2 Volhynia massacre victims

The massacre of around 100,000 Polish civilians by a Ukrainian paramilitary force had long soured diplomatic relations between the otherwise close allies.

Art

Row erupts over new German court for Nazi-looted art

The German government has approved a new system to make it easier to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners.

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Thousands evacuated in Dresden after discovery of World War II bomb

The city of Dresden was the site of some of the most devastating bombing campaigns of the Second World War.

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Netherlands publishes list of 250,000 suspected Nazi collaborators

The research group Huygens Institute helped digitise the archive in a project subsidised by the Ministries of Justice, Education and Health.

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Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion, dies aged 103

Five-time Olympic champion gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the most successful competitor in Hungarian gymnastics and a Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.