Second World War

Police in Northern Ireland ordered the evacuation of more than 400 homes to remove what is suspected to be a World War II-era bomb.

Nigel Farage accused Rishi Sunak of lacking patriotism after the PM left D-Day ceremonies in France early to film an election interview.

Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves into now peaceful Normandy skies, opening a week of ceremonies for D-Day.

Observances were held in Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” in which 76 prisoners tunneled out of a Nazi POW camp.

A World War II-era bomb whose discovery prompted one of the largest peacetime evacuations in British history has been detonated at sea.

There was a rare activation of the emergency alert system in the UK as thousands of residents were evacuated from a Second World War bomb.

EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen drew condemnation after posting a video which wrongly suggested the Auschwitz death camp was Polish.

Work started Monday on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station.

A standing ovation for a former SS trooper shows a “large knowledge gap” abbout the west’s own history, Polish govt minister told Breitbart. 

Polish government taking steps to examine the case for extraditing a 98-year-old former SS trooper applauded in the Canadian Parliament.

Poland condemns ‘whitewashingv and demands apology from Canada after a 98-year-old former Waffen SS trooper was applauded in parliament.

Speaker of the Canadian Parliament pleaded ignorance to knowing man he lauded as “Ukrainian hero, Canadian hero” was actually a Nazi volunteer.

The United States should ‘encourage’ Germany to work towards an agreement on Second World War damages with Poland, Rep. Chris Smith has said.

Revelations about journalists with French state media outlet France 24 has seen a second figure pushed out for his antisemitic tweets.

The Nazi occupiers punished Poland, including mass executions and the systematic destruction of the city’s buildings. 

Claim for $1.4tn reparations makes comparisons to Russian invasion of Ukraine that Berlin will find uncomfortable but has refused to discuss.

Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the 1944 D-Day has died.

Diplomats from dozens of countries are meeting to find money to rebuild Ukraine, cost estimated by the World Bank at more than $400 billion.

Malaysia said on Tuesday authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting World War II shipwrecks.

A French mayor has reportedly given a speech written by an AI chatbot commemorating the dead of the second world war.

In the latest embarrassment for Emmanuel Macron, the French president drove down a nearly empty Champs-Elysées on Victory Day for fear of protests.

News agency Reuters has posted an interview with a soldier nicknamed “Adolf” who serves in the Ukrainian “SS” brigade.

Explorers announced they found a WWII ship that was sunk in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss of 1,080 lives.

Thoughts are turning to the end of the Ukraine war, with suggestions from war crimes trials to Ukrainian tanks parked in Moscow’s Red Square.

Officials protested Ukraine for appointing an official who praised an ultranationalist whose supporters murdered tens of thousands of Poles.

The main war memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland, was set on fire within 24 hours of its having been the centrepiece of the nation’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations for the fallen.

Poland has demolished four so-called ‘Monuments of Gratitude’ to the armies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as part of an ongoing decommunisation programme.

The Canadian government has invested around $4 million to partner with a local government to buy back beachfront land and prevent a building development at Juno, the D-Day landing beach Canadian soldiers stormed in 1944.

Germany told Poland there will be no more World War II reparations because Berlin considers the matter is closed.

Poland requested the payment of some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.

A climate change activist poured human faeces and urine over a memorial to Second World War veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore to protest private jets.

The head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has claimed that Germany owes his country cash reparations for Germany’s actions in the Second World War, claiming that Poland suffered as much as 1.3 trillion euros of damage.

The Latvian government has gone ahead with the demolition of a Soviet-era war memorial in the capital city of Riga this week, the latest Soviet monument to be destroyed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The head of Poland’s central bank has claimed that Germany is eyeing up ways of seizing territory lost to Poland after the end of the Second World War.

Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson has presented Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with the Sir Winston Churchill Award for his wartime leadership.

Prosecutors in Poland questioned witnesses after a 31-year-old man allegedly placed powerful explosives in a busy downtown area of Warsaw.