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Poland and Ukraine agree to exhume WW2 Volhynia massacre victims

The massacre of around 100,000 Polish civilians by a Ukrainian paramilitary force had long soured diplomatic relations between the otherwise close allies.

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Row erupts over new German court for Nazi-looted art

The German government has approved a new system to make it easier to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners.

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Thousands evacuated in Dresden after discovery of World War II bomb

The city of Dresden was the site of some of the most devastating bombing campaigns of the Second World War.

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Netherlands publishes list of 250,000 suspected Nazi collaborators

The research group Huygens Institute helped digitise the archive in a project subsidised by the Ministries of Justice, Education and Health.

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Ágnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion, dies aged 103

Five-time Olympic champion gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the most successful competitor in Hungarian gymnastics and a Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.

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Pelosi hospitalised in Luxembourg after injury

The former US-House of Representatives Speaker had travelled to Luxembourg to attend commemorations on the 80th anniversary of WW II 'Battle of the Bulge'.

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Senegal commemorates 80th anniversary of French WW2 massacre

Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they demanded unpaid wages.

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Macron marks 80th anniversary of the liberation of Strasbourg

French President Emmanuel Macron attends commemoration ceremonies of Strasbourg liberation.

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Berlin WWII sexual abuse memorial leads to international row

A Korean NGO says it will sue the German capital's district, which ordered the removal of a statue memorialising sexual abuse victims during World War II after calls from Japan.

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New York to host replica exhibition of Anne Frank's hidden annex

The immersive installation will form part of the upcoming "Anne Frank The Exhibition" show at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan.

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'Churchill's Spaniards': The untold story of those who fought Hitler

A new book by Séan Scullion, "Churchill’s Spaniards - Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46", tells the story of about 1,200 Spaniards who enlisted with the British army to fight Hitler in the war.

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German and Italian Presidents attend Marzabotto massacre anniversary

Hundreds of men, women and children were massacred by Nazi troops and local fascists for their support of Italian resistance fighters.

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80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden commemorated near Arnhem

Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands on Saturday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's most daring — but ultimately unsuccessful — missions, Operation Market Garden.

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Dutch royals mark 80th anniversary of Netherlands' liberation

American troops from the 30th Infantry Division, known as Old Hickory, were among Allied forces that liberated parts of Belgium and the southern Netherlands from German Nazi occupation in September 1944.

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Dutch 'adopt' fallen US soldiers to mark 80 years since liberation

The Netherlands is commemorating the 80th anniversary of the beginning of its liberation from Nazi Occupation with a concert at a burial ground for American and Allied troops.

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Poland marks 85th anniversary of Nazi German invasion

In more than five years of brutal German occupation during WWII, the central European country lost 6 million citizens, or a sixth of its population, of which 3 million were Jewish.

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WATCH: Steinmeier asks for forgiveness 80 years after Warsaw Uprising

During the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought forgiveness from Poles, attributing wartime atrocities to German nationalism, imperialism, and racism.

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80 people evacuated as unexploded WWII missile found in Poland

The explosive device is known for its large field of fire, with military officials set a safety zone of 1500 meters.

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Israel's Holocaust memorial opens new conservation facility

The David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center will provide organization and storage for 225 million pages of documents and half a million photographs.

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Is James Bond taking over London’s secret WWII underground tunnels?

The once secret Kingsway Exchange Tunnels are set to be transformed into a cultural space and open to the public for the first time since World War II. And rumours are that a 007 exhibit is part of planned transformation of the tunnels into an underground museum.