Nazi guards shot prisoners for fun at Channel Islands camp, research says
SS troops killed inmates for target practice, according to account given in documentary Ghosts of Alderney Guards at a prison camp on one of the...
Category : Second world war
VE Day live: UK and Europe hold ceremonies to mark 80 years since end of second world war in Europe
Commemorations take place across the UK and Europe against backdrop of Ukraine conflict Another from the Guardian archive: St Peter Port, Guernsey Continue reading…...
Europe marks 80 years since VE day as continent faces new security realities
Events to take place against backdrop of Ukraine conflict, rises in defence spending and US foreign policy shift Solemn ceremonies will be held at war...
The witnesses: second world war survivors from across Europe share their stories
On the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe, survivors, including veterans from both sides, remember what happened Eighty years...
Many in US and western Europe think ‘third world war likely within five to 10 years’
Exclusive: Poll before 80th anniversary of VE Day finds tensions with Russia seen as most probable cause Eighty years after the second world war, polling...
Bergen-Belsen survivors mark 80th anniversary of camp’s liberation
About 180 British Jews and deputy PM Angela Rayner among those in attendance at event in northern Germany Survivors of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen...
‘The only thing still working’: Russia and UK agreement to tend war graves transcends bitter international relations
Private understanding ensures tending of British military graves in Russia and Crimea, and Soviet graves in UK In graves at Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok, in...
Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from...
Auschwitz survivors return to camp as they and world leaders mark 80th anniversary of its liberation – live
Holocaust survivors return for memorial ceremony on 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ‘I waved at my mother and she waved back. That...
Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration
Some descendants are apprehensive but a historian says making 30m pages of records public is ‘important step’ For 80 years, details of their ancestors’ collaboration...
