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World-War-II

Art & Culture 4 years ago

New museum gingerly explores German wartime suffering

The new museum dedicated to the long-silenced trauma of ethnic Germans forced to flee eastern Europe at the end of World War II.

Opinion 4 years ago

Every fifth person: The USSR’s loss of civilian, military life during World War II

These days, the USSR gets excluded from the list of winners, and often is not even mentioned, as if the country didn't even participate in WWII at all.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Strong whiff of wartime scandal clings to Coco Chanel

What no one mentioned was that Chanel had spent World War II in the luxury hotel with her German officer lover working as a spy for both German military intelligence and the SS.

Environment 5 years ago

Alligator that survived Berlin WWII bombing on display in Moscow

An alligator believed to have belonged to Adolf Hitler that died aged 84 has been taxidermied and put on display in Moscow.

Opinion 5 years ago

UNHCR turns 70: Keep serving people who are forced to flee

We are not usually “in the room” when the fates of nations and peoples are decided.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Divers discover Nazi WW2 enigma machine in Baltic Sea

German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Polish divers hope Nazi shipwreck holds key to Amber Room treasure

Polish divers say they have found the wreck of a German World War Two ship which may help solve a decades-old mystery - the whereabouts of the Amber Room, an ornate chamber from a tsarist palace in Russia that was looted by the Nazis.

Entertainment 5 years ago

Most Germans knew Holocaust was happening, new film claims

A "vanishingly small number" of Germans were unaware the Holocaust was going on during World War II, the makers of a chilling new documentary said Thursday.

World 5 years ago

Emperor Naruhito expresses 'deep remorse' over WWII

Cabinet ministers also visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine on the war anniversary for the first time since 2016.

World 5 years ago

North Korea urges Japan to apologize, pay reparations for 'sexual slavery'

North Korea on Saturday urged Japan to "make a sincere apology and reparation" for the "sexual slavery" inflicted on Korean women, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the peninsula from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule.

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World-War-II

New museum gingerly explores German wartime suffering

Every fifth person: The USSR’s loss of civilian, military life during World War II

Strong whiff of wartime scandal clings to Coco Chanel

Alligator that survived Berlin WWII bombing on display in Moscow

UNHCR turns 70: Keep serving people who are forced to flee

Divers discover Nazi WW2 enigma machine in Baltic Sea

Polish divers hope Nazi shipwreck holds key to Amber Room treasure

Most Germans knew Holocaust was happening, new film claims

Emperor Naruhito expresses 'deep remorse' over WWII

North Korea urges Japan to apologize, pay reparations for 'sexual slavery'

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