World War II
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Asia
South Korea says Japan’s inaction means ‘comfort women’ court ruling upheld
SEOUL: A South Korean court’s ruling in favour of a group of 16 women who were forced to work in…
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News
WW II veterans eye 80th anniversary of D-Day as Europe salutes war dead
English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining…
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Germany
Painting stolen during World War II returned to German museum
The painting, “Landscape of Italian Character,” by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer, will soon be displayed in…
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Germany
New claims that WW2 Pope Pius XII knew about Nazi crimes
A letter has been published in Italian media suggesting that the late Pope Pius XII may have had detailed information…
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Europe
Paris mayor strips Palestinian President Abbas of honour over Holocaust remarks
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has stripped Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the French capital’s highest honour after he made remarks…
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Europe
French dig fails to find bodies of executed WWII German troops
A dig for the bodies of dozens of German occupation troops said to have been executed in central France by…
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Europe
Workers in France’s Meymac dig for remains of executed WWII German soldiers
Issued on: 17/08/2023 – 10:23Modified: 17/08/2023 – 12:11 01:57 Workers in the French municipality of Meymac are digging to find…
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United Kingdom
Who was Sir Nicholas Winton?
An upcoming film, ‘One Life’, will tell the life of Sir Nicholas Winton. Who was the Holocaust hero? Sir Nicholas…
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United Kingdom
The EU should join Britain’s push to illuminate its Holocaust past
By uniting memory and cooperation, we can build a better world — a world where diversity is celebrated, where prejudice…
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Germany
Culture Re-View: On this day in 1925, ‘Mein Kampf’ is published
On this day in 1925, Adolf Hitler published his autobiographical manifesto ‘Mein Kampf’ in Germany. On 18 July 1925, the…
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