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'Accountant of Auschwitz' Holocaust trial begins in Germany

A former Auschwitz concentration camp guard has admitted to being “morally guilty” but says he committed no crime. Oskar Groening, 93, is before a

Israel

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel came to a two minute standstill on Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. To the sound of a siren people stood in solemn silence in

Germany

Buchenwald: 70th anniversary of Nazi concentration camp's liberation

Survivors and veterans have been gathering at what was Buchenwald Concentration Camp to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation on April 11

Germany

Germany dismisses Greece's demand for billions in war reparations

Bavaria's state finance minister has called Greece's World War Two reparation claims "inappropriate" and "not very clever"

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Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas co-star in adaptation of 'Suite Francaise'

Based on Irène Némirovsky’s novel of the same name, ‘Suite Francaise’ centres on a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the

Latvia

Latvia remembers WWII troops who fought against Soviet occupation

Several hundred people in the Latvian capital Riga have remembered soldiers who fought on the side of German forces against Soviet troops during

Greece

Greece threatens to seize German state-owned property in compensation for Nazi massacre

Greek court ruling allows for seizure of German state-owned property to compensate victims of Nazi massacre in Greek village of Distomo

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Cocktails underground: 1940s-themed bar opens in London air raid shelter

United Kingdom

British woman receives pilot brother's ring 72 years after he was killed

A British woman has travelled to Albania to recover a ring her pilot brother was wearing when his bomber crashed in 1944.

Philippines

[Watch] Japanese WW2 battleship found off coast of the Philippines

Germany

70 years on Germany remembers Allied firebombing of Dresden

A special service has been held in the eastern German city of Dresden to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied bombardment. Candles for peace were

Germany

Dresden's 70-year trauma

British planes dropped explosive and incendiary bombs on Dresden during the night of February 13th, 1945. American planes followed. In four raids, at

Germany

Germany rejects Greek government calls for Second World War reparations

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias get a 'nein' from Berlin to his government’s claim for World War Two reparations

World News

Yalta Conference began this day 70 years ago

The Yalta Conference, a key meeting that took place before the end of the Second World War, began 70 years ago to this day. At the meeting

Culture news

50th anniversary of Churchill's death

Wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill died 50 years ago this month – and the anniversary has been marked by a flurry of events and

Poland

Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Memories produce warnings for a modern world

Auschwitz’s last survivors urged the world not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust as they marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s

Poland

Auschwitz survivors 70 years on plead for 'our children's future'

At the Gate of Death, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have marked 70 years since their liberation from the Nazi German extermination camp in Poland

Poland

Auschwitz liberation a Soviet pause in sweep to crush Hitler

When he was 21, Ivan Martynushkin was a lieutenant in the Soviet Red Army, commanding a machine-gun unit. By the start of 1945 they had walked

Poland

Holocaust survivors tell the world what happened in Auschwitz

Survivors of the Holocaust visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Monday (January 26), one day ahead of ceremonies marking the 70th

France

Auschwitz prisoner's tattoo like a tomb stone

Auschwitz survivor Elie Buzyn reflects on the marks of inhumanity that untold millions of people suffered from 70 years ago. He eventually settled in