World War II
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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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Europe
France fast-tracks Jewish claims on artwork stolen during WWII
France on Thursday passed a law making it easier to return the works of art seized by Nazi Germany which…
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Germany
Why Hamburg’s plan to ‘decolonise’ Bismarck statue failed
Hamburg held a competition to re-imagine its monument to Otto Von Bismarck. Its failure reveals the struggle facing decolonial movements…
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Europe
France’s last surviving D-day veteran Léon Gautier dies at 100
The last surviving Frenchman to participate in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 died Monday aged 100, local authorities…
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Germany
Polish descendants of Nazi victims demand compensation from Germany
By Magdalena Chodownik  with Philip Andrew Churm  •  Updated: 28/06/2023 – 11:03 Claims of €4.3m are being made against German companies Bayer and Henschel by descendants…
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Europe
-1.jpg "French-Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian to enter France’s Panthéon")
French-Armenian Resistance hero Missak Manouchian to enter France’s Panthéon
Missak Manouchian, an Armenian genocide survivor who went on to become a French Resistance hero, will enter France’s Panthéon mausoleum…
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Europe
Revisited – Warsaw Ghetto: Labyrinth of memories
Issued on: 09/06/2023 – 17:28Modified: 09/06/2023 – 17:33 In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising took place. It was a courageous…
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Europe
France’s last surviving D-Day commando joins 79th anniversary commemorations
Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commandos who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler’s troops in…
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