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World War II

Austria: Anger over a business park being built on top of former Nazi camp

Europe
Revisited

Japan's controversial WWII heroes: How one kamikaze pilot escaped certain death

Asia / Pacific

Drought-hit Danube gives way to mammoth fossil hunt in Bulgaria

Europe

Japan marks Nagasaki bombing anniversary as PM Takaichi rattles pacifists with nuclear debate

Asia / Pacific

UNESCO adds Normandy's D-Day landing beaches to World Heritage List

Europe

Why France's D-Day landing beaches could join Unesco's heritage site list

France

From colonial symbol to sanctuary: Paris's Grand Mosque turns 100

Interview
France

French Resistance hero and historian Marc Bloch enters France's Pantheon

Europe

France inducts Resistance fighter, soldier, historian Marc Bloch into its Panthéon of greats

Long read
France

French Resistance fighter, historian Marc Bloch joins the Pantheon greats

France
Focus

Resistance fighter Marc Bloch becomes first historian to enter France's Panthéon

France

Zelensky returns Polish award as WWII row strains alliance

Europe

Poland strips Zelensky of country's highest honour, escalating World War II-era row

Europe

Residents of French village say US defense chief Hegseth not welcome for D-Day visit

France

Zelensky ignites fury by honouring Ukrainian WWII fighters who massacred Poles and Jews

Explainer
Europe

Hegseth blasts ‘invasion’ of migrants on Europe’s beaches in D-Day speech in France

Europe
Spotlight

Holocaust remembrance: Newly discovered photos illustrate previously unknown roundup of French Jews

France

Summer blockbuster: Why the French keep coming back to Charles de Gaulle

Explainer
France

A year before the French election, De Gaulle remains politically fashionable

France
Focus

WWII internment of travellers: French survivors fight for recognition

Europe

Ukrainians mark end of WWII amid fragile ceasefire with Russia

Europe

Russia is fighting an 'aggressive' NATO-backed force, Putin says in Victory Day speech

Europe
Focus

Germans confront past with Nazi party membership lists available online

Europe

What to expect from Victory Day commemorations in France ?

France

Russia, Ukraine trade attacks ahead of Kremlin's World War II commemoration parade

Europe

Putin and Zelensky both unilaterally declare conflicting 2-day truces

Europe

Russia will not display military equipment at Victory Day parade due to Ukraine threat

Europe

'I’m the only person who can do it': Why 102-year-old Dachau survivor Jean Lafaurie tells his story

Interview
France

Jean Lafaurie, 102 years old, still resisting

Profile
France
Entre Nous

New Paris exhibition showcases work of US photographer and war reporter Lee Miller

Culture
Revisited

Soviet famine still haunts Moldova, 80 years on

Europe

Trump compares US strikes on Iran to WWII Pearl Harbor attack

Americas

Trump takes Pearl Harbor jab at Japan's Takaichi as she ducks Iran row

Americas
arts24

Director Xavier Giannoli explores the darkness and shadows of Nazi occupation

Culture

Swastikas spray-painted on former Nazi transit camp in Paris suburbs

France

Never-before-seen photos of Nazi executions in Greece surface on eBay

Explainer
Europe

Lili Keller-Rosenberg, bearing witness to the end

Europe

Holocaust survivor, 93, bears witness for young 'messengers of peace'

Interview
Europe

Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96

Europe

French official to sue over ‘revisionist’ remarks hailing Nazi collaborator Pétain

France

Senegal report shows WWII massacre 'premeditated' by French colonial forces

Africa

Senegal report sheds new light on WWII French colonial massacre

Africa

Senegal awaits report on French colonial-era massacre of Thiaroye

Africa
Access Asia

'I dissected 300 humans': Former Unit 731 members expose Japan's wartime atrocities

Asia / Pacific

Argentine police recover Nazi-looted Italian painting spotted in property ad

Americas
Press Review

A 'battle for history'? Papers react to China's victory parade

Asia / Pacific

A 'battle for history'? Papers react to China's victory parade

Kim and Putin join Xi Jinping at massive military parade in Beijing

Asia / Pacific

How China’s XXL military parade puts its military and territorial ambitions on show

Analysis
Asia / Pacific

The Argentine hunt for a painting stolen by the Nazis 80 years ago

Americas

Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemitic attacks

Asia / Pacific

The Bright Side: Finnish fans celebrate 80th birthday of beloved Moomins characters

Europe

Japan: Nagasaki survivors say 'never again'

Japan marks 80 years since atomic bombing of Nagasaki

Asia / Pacific

Survivors mark 80 years since Hiroshima atomic bombing

Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing amid escalating nuclear tensions

Asia / Pacific
France in focus

Frantz Fanon: From Martinique to Algeria, the journey of an anti-colonialist

Africa

How influencers are getting clicks by sharing AI-generated, fake images of the Holocaust

The Bright Side: French military pigeons race in tribute to feathered World War heroes

France
Access Asia

'There are no winners or losers in war. Only sadness': Nagasaki A-bomb survivor appeals for peace

Asia / Pacific
Entre Nous

Radio Resistance: Remembering Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of June 18

France

Veterans mark 81st anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy

France
Revisited

Hiroshima, 80 years on: Meeting the last survivors of the apocalypse

Asia / Pacific

Remembering Sétif, the VE Day colonial massacres that ‘lost Algeria’ for France

Explainer
Africa

Putin hosts world leaders at lavish army parade amid Ukraine war

Europe

‘All of Russia’ supports war in Ukraine, Putin says at ‘Victory Day’ parade

Europe

Putin and Xi vow to protect shared version of 'historical truth' in Kremlin talks

'Spectre of war has returned' to Europe, Macron warns on 80th anniversary of V-E Day

France

Paris finalises preparations for the commemoration of the end of World War II

Putin and Xi vow to protect shared version of 'historical truth' in Kremlin talks

Europe
Focus

'To the bitter end': The Dunkirk pocket of Nazi resistance

France

German burials of Nazi remains stir controversy over national memory

Long read
Europe