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Russia: Victory Day

The event, held every year on May 9, is an annual fixture designed to commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over the Nazis in the Second World War.

09/05/2017

World News

Commemorations to mark the end of WWII across Europe

The end of WWII marked across Europe

08/05/2017

Germany

Hannover evacuated after several unexploded WWII bombs discovered

At least 50,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in the German city of Hannover – so that several World War Two bombs can be defused.

07/05/2017

Germany

WWII bombs force mass evacuation in Hanover

Around 50-thousand people are being evacuated in the German city of Hanover on Sunday, so that World War Two bombs can be defused.

07/05/2017

Japan

Japan-Russia cooperation paves way for peace treaty

02/05/2017

Germany

1945 liberation of Dachau Nazi camp remembered

The anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp in Germany is being marked.

29/04/2017

Poland

Holocaust Remembrance Day marked around the world

Israel came to a standstill on Monday as a two-minute siren wailed in remembrance of the Holocaust's six million victims.

24/04/2017

Hungary

Budapest 'March of the Living' commemorates Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust

Thousands of people took to the streets of Budapest for the ‘March of the Living’ – an event to commemorate the 550,000 Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.

16/04/2017

USA

JFK calls Hitler "stuff of legends" in early diary

A diary written by a 28-year-old John F. Kennedy comes up for auction on the 100th anniversary of his birth

28/03/2017

Poland

Poland to seek extradition of US suspected WWII criminal

Polish authorities say they will seek the arrest and extradition of a US citizen suspected of committing crimes against humanity during the Second World War.

14/03/2017

Denmark

Schoolboy finds German WWII plane with pilot inside

A Danish 14-year-old has unearthed a German warplane from the Second World War while working on a school history project.

09/03/2017

United Kingdom

Londoners evacuated as quarter-ton WWII bomb found

Around 50 residents of an affluent London neighbourhood have been evacuated after construction workers uncovered an unexploded World War Two bomb.

03/03/2017

Cinema

'Land of Mine' opens door into corner of Danish history

Beneath a vast expanse of sand on the Danish coast lie thousands of deadly land mines.

13/02/2017

Greece

Greece: World War II bomb defused after Thessaloniki evacuation

An unexploded World War Two bomb was safely defused on Sunday after one of Greece’s biggest peacetime evacuations.

12/02/2017

Cinema

New German film addresses Nazi child 'euthanasia'

Director Kai Wessel's film 'Fog In August' ('Nebel im August') addresses a dark period in German history - the Nazis' "euthanasia" programme.

10/02/2017

Germany

German launch raids against Third Reich supporters

German police target groups who want to see a return of the Reich

07/02/2017

Syria

Watch: What have these child refugees 80 years apart got in common?

They were born on different continents more than three quarters of a century apart but are united by one common thread – escaping war.

06/02/2017

Germany

Nazi propagandist Goebbels' wartime secretary dies at 106

Brunhilde Pomsel said she knew nothing of Nazi atrocities and lived her life in obscurity until her story was unearthed in 2011.

30/01/2017

Cult

Interactive questions for Holocaust survivors a the UK National Holocaust Centre

From beyond the grave the harrowing stories of the Holocaust are being told.

27/01/2017

Cinema

'Denial' - the story of a legal battle for truth with Timothy Spall and Rachel Weisz

It is the story of a legal battle for truth.

26/01/2017