World War II
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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](https://s.france24.com/media/display/647aad24-3cd7-11ee-ab4a-005056bfb2b6/w:1280/p:16x9/m:{"brand":"FRANCE24","lang":"EN","program":"","cartouche":"FRANCE","hash":"f5e80e7e9a085b408347816b2a59e1e8bde19f8c7d51daa131e5f5611092e8ef","title":"Remains%20of%20executed%20%0AWWII%20German%20soldiers","id":"25aba80c-45fb-11ec-90e2-005056bf30b7"}/EN_20230817_091834_092032_CS.jpg "Workers in France’s Meymac dig for remains of executed WWII German soldiers")
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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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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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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