Japan: Mayor sparks outrage for justifying WW2 'comfort women'

Japan: Mayor sparks outrage for justifying WW2 'comfort women'

14 May 2013 13:45 - Reuters
China has expressed outrage over remarks by the mayor of Osaka who said Japan's system of military brothels during World War II was "necessary".
An attempt to restore dignity after the Nazi regime

An attempt to restore dignity after the Nazi regime

22 Feb 2013 00:00 - Brent Meersman
A new exhibition focuses on the rarely mentioned Nazi regime’s persecution of homosexuals.
Airport evacuated after World War II bomb scare

Airport evacuated after World War II bomb scare

29 Aug 2012 14:04 - Gilbert Kreijger
Authorities have evacuated parts of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after workers found an unexploded World War II bomb underground near a busy terminal.
Blame psychological warfare

Blame psychological warfare

16 Mar 2012 11:34 - Giles Fraser
The latest Kandahar massacre has illustrated how soldier's have hardened and how their natural 'shoot-to-miss' instinct have been stifled.

Uproar over first German post-war reprint of Mein Kampf

18 Jan 2012 12:16 - Yannick Pasquet
Academics say the time has come for some of the taboos surrounding Hitler's book in Germany to fall.

War wasn't hell for Heller

04 Nov 2011 00:00 - Stephen Bates
Fans of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 may be surprised to learn that the author actually enjoyed his military service during World War II.

Farewell to Nancy Wake, who ran rings around the Nazis

09 Aug 2011 11:05 - Staff Reporter
The WWII resistance heroine, who has died aged 98, was 'a force of nature' who topped the Gestapo's most-wanted list.

Nancy Wake, WWII heroine, dies aged 98

09 Aug 2011 11:05 - Staff Reporter
The WW2 resistance heroine, who has died aged 98, was 'a force of nature' who topped the Gestapo's most-wanted list.
'When the attack came, we were not ready'

'When the attack came, we were not ready'

22 Jun 2011 11:04 - Stuart Williams
Russia on Wednesday marked 70 years since the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, an event that apparently caught Stalin totally unprepared.

WWII guerrilla execution site located

14 Apr 2011 20:32 - Staff Reporter
Serbian officials say they have located the site where a World War II royalist guerrilla was executed as a traitor by postwar communist authorities.

Thousands evacuated in Budapest as WWII bomb found

29 Jul 2008 13:40 - Staff Reporter
Hungary police evacuated thousands of people in Budapest on Tuesday where experts prepared to defuse a World War II bomb found on a construction site.

World War II mass grave found in southern Russia

11 Jun 2008 18:23 - Staff Reporter
Russian historians have tracked down a mass grave on a remote front in World War II believed to contain the remains of 1 000 German and Soviet soldiers, a researcher said on Wednesday.