World news about “World War II” published by euronews.
UN court rules against Italy’s Nazi claims The UN’s top court ruled on Friday that Germany has immunity from foreign lawsuits by victims of the Nazi regime seeking compensation. The 15-member… 03/02/2012
German legal threat to stop Hitler memoir extracts A British publisher is controversially planning to publish excerpts of Hitler’s memoir “Mein Kampf” in Germany, along with a critical commentary. But the… 21/01/2012
French movie shines light on role of Muslims in the resistance French movie, “Les hommes libres,” – ‘The Free Men’ – brings to the big screen the little known story of Muslim men and women who saved the lives of Jews… 29/09/2011
Turkish Passport WWII Jews’ salvation The film “The Turkish Passport” combines dramatic reenactments with documentary testimony to tell a little-known tale from more than 60 years ago, of how… 01/08/2011
Back in the Day: the evacuation of DunkirkMay 26, 1940. Surrounded by German troops, Allied soldiers began an evacuation from the beaches and harbour of the northern French port of Dunkirk. A German… 25/05/2011
66th anniversary of Victory Day in Belarus – nocomment Belarus celebrated the 66th anniversary of victory over fascism and the triumph of the Great Patriotic War as war veterans attended various special events. 10/05/2011
France’s President Sarkozy commemorates Victory in Europe Day in ParisFrance’s President Nicolas Sarkozy lays a wreath at the statue of Charles de Gaulle to commemorate the Victory in Europe Day of May 8, 1945, during a ceremony… 08/05/2011
Exhibition highlights dark side of Nazi Olympics Most people know about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich when Hitler had to shake Jessie Owen’s hand after he beat the master race over 100 metres. How… 23/02/2011
Pearl Harbor remembered 70 years laterCeremonies commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have been held across the United States. It was the surprise attack on… 08/12/2011
Huge WWII bomb made safe in KoblenzA huge World War II unexploded bomb was one of two successfully defused on Sunday by German experts after the pair were discovered on the riverbed of the… 05/12/2011
Ukrainian Jews remember WWII massacreEvents are being held across Ukraine to mark the 70th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed on the 29th and 30th September… 30/09/2011
Accused war criminal dies awaiting appealFormer Hungarian army captain Sandor Kepiro has died aged 97. He was accused of taking part in WWII’s Novi Sad Massacre but fled to Argentina before returning… 03/09/2011
Poland remembers Warsaw UprisingPoland on Monday paid tribute to those who lost their lives in the Warsaw Uprising against occupying Nazi Germany 67 years ago. Prime Minister Donald Tusk… 01/08/2011
Hungarian war crimes suspect clearedHungarian war crimes suspect Sandor Kepiro was acquitted over World War II Nazi executions in Serbia on Monday. A Budapest Municipal Court cleared the… 18/07/2011
Romanian pogrom showed Nazis ‘how to do mass murder’Romania has marked the 70th anniversary of one of the worst pogroms of the Holocaust. Up to 15,000 Jews in the city of Iasi – a third of the total – were… 28/06/2011
Russian vigil for Patriotic WarAcross Russia, people have been marking the outbreak of war 70 years ago, when the Soviet Union was invaded by Hitler’s Germany in 1941. For other… 22/06/2011
Bulgaria’s Soviet liberation AmericanisedPutting a twist on liberation, a sculpture honouring the advance of the Soviet Red Army into Nazi-allied Bulgaria in World War II has been given a make-over… 20/06/2011
Court frees Demjanjuk after finding him guiltyA court in Munich has freed 91-year-old John Demjanjuk just hours after finding him guilty of being an accessory to mass murder during his time at the Sobibor… 12/05/2011
Back in the Day: Churchill enters No.10May 10, 1940. Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. At 65 years old he was seen as the best person to lead the country through… 09/05/2011
Massive show of military might in RussiaRussia has marked the 66th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany with an impressive display of its military might. The Prime Minister and President… 09/05/2011
Victory Day marks the ending of World War IIOn the eve of commemorations in Russia for the end of World War II, President Dmitry Medvedev met veterans at a ceremony in Moscow’s Armed forces… 09/05/2011
Trial of ‘most wanted’ Nazi war crime suspect startsThe world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect has gone on trial in Hungary. 97-year-old Hungarian Sandor Kepiro struggled into the Budapest court to face… 05/05/2011
Germans commemorate Dresden deadThousands of Germans gathered in the eastern city of Dresden on Sunday, not just to remember the horrific bombing of the city by the allies in 1945, but to… 13/02/2011
Kantor deplores ‘anti-Israelism’On the eve of the anniversary of the opening of the gates of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, euronews interviewed Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor… 26/01/2011
Auschwitz rememberedSixty-six years ago Auschwitz stopped functioning. This is commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The biggest… 26/01/2011
La SNCF exprime ses regrets pour son rôle dans la ShoahLors d’une cérémonie organisée à Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), le président de la SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, a reconnu le passé sombre de la compagnie. Celui-ci a… 25/01/2011
Nuremberg trial exhibition marks 65th anniversaryThe German town of Nuremberg is marking the 65th anniversary of the trials held there against Nazi leaders at the end of the second world… 22/11/2010
Art Nazis called “degenerate” displayed in BerlinEleven sculptures condemned by the Nazi regime as “degenerate” and believed to have been lost or destroyed have been unearthed and are now on display at the… 17/11/2010
Nazis found ‘safe haven’ in US says secret reportHow could Hitler’s henchmen have found a “safe haven” in the United States? Full transparency is being demanded after a secret report revealed Nazis were… 15/11/2010
Request to probe Vatican Bank over holocaust lootThe European Commission has been asked to investigate allegations that the Vatican bank helped launder the proceeds from property plundered by the Nazis… 27/10/2010
Book claims German diplomats active in HolocaustGermany’s Foreign Ministry played a far more active role in the Holocaust than previously thought, a new book reveals. ‘‘The Office and the Past’‘ claims… 26/10/2010
Unprecedented Hitler exhibition in BerlinWhy did so many people follow Hitler under the Nazis? That is the question the German Historical Museum in Berlin is trying to answer with an unprecedented… 15/10/2010
Russia gives Poland more files on Katyn massacreRussia has handed over to Poland a further batch of secret documents on the World War Two Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish nationals. 20 volumes of… 23/09/2010
Submarine find recalls World War two tragedyA deep sea discovery could bring to the surface fresh details of a Second World War tragedy. Off the coast of Romania, divers believe they have located the… 13/09/2010
Rare film shows London in the Blitz, 70 years agoRare colour film has been released to mark the 70th anniversary of the WW2 bombing of London – the Blitz. On 7th September 1940, Hitler sent waves of aircraft… 07/09/2010
Churchill’s Battle of Britain speech rememberedWinston Churchill called it Britain’s “finest hour” – and it came to be seen as a turning point in World War II. 70 years on, the Battle of Britain is being… 21/08/2010
Japan apologises to South KoreaJapan has offered another apology to South Korea for the suffering inflicted during its colonisation of the Korean peninsula up to the end of World War … 10/08/2010
Nagasaki rememberedA bell was tolled marking the moment 65 years ago when the US exploded an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. An estimated 80,000 people were… 09/08/2010
Ukraine’s March of LifeA group of German descendants of Nazi soliders held a ceremony in Ukraine where many Jews were executed during World War Two. In September 1941, German… 06/08/2010
Poland remembers the fallen of Warsaw fightbackPoland has been remembering the tragic Warsaw uprising when thousands died in the doomed fightback against Nazi occupation in 1944. The President-elect of… 01/08/2010
66th anniversary of bomb plot to kill HitlerA failed war-time plot to kill Adolf Hitler has been commemorated at a ceremony in Berlin. Operation Valkyrie was hatched by disillusioned army officers who… 20/07/2010
France and UK remember de Gaulle broadcastThe British and French leaders led the commemorations in London on the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle’s historic wartime call to resistance from the… 18/06/2010
Sarkozy in UK to mark de Gaulle’s wartime appealPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has honoured war veterans in London, 70 years after Charles de Gaulle’s rousing radio address from the city to Nazi-occupied France… 18/06/2010
Sarkozy to mark anniversary of WWII broadcastsA specially-chartered train is heading to London for a major anniversary tribute to French wartime resistance leader Charles de Gaulle. It was June 18, 1940… 18/06/2010
“Dunkirk” spirit revived 70 years onThe last time they embarked on this crossing, it was a lot less peaceful. For the second time in history, dozens of the famous “Little Ships” have left… 27/05/2010
A military parade in central Moscow to mark victory over Nazi GermanyRussia has marked victory over Nazi Germany 65 years ago with a military parade in central Moscow. President Dmitry Medvedev looked on at what has been… 09/05/2010
Russia marks 65th anniversary of WWII victoryNato troops have marched for the first time across Moscow’s Red Square as Russia marks the 65th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. While surveys… 09/05/2010
Survivors mark Buchenwald liberation, 65 years onIt is 65 years since Buchenwald was liberated. Those too young to have known the horrors of the Nazis joined survivors to mark the anniversary at the… 12/04/2010
Poland still expects more over KatynIn the weeks leading up to the outbreak of WWII in August 1939, Germany and Russia signed a pact of non-aggression. The Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement also… 07/04/2010
German experts put Dresden death toll at 25,000How many died in the Allied bombing of Dresden? The debate has long raged with German far-right groups claiming up to 500,000 people perished. But now an… 18/03/2010
Thousands led to safety as WWII bomb is defusedMore than 20,000 people had to be evacuated from the centre of Caen in France as army ordnance experts defused a 500 kilo Second World War… 14/02/2010
Dresden marks anniversary of allied bombing.Mainstream political parties and other democratic institutions formed a human chain to symbolically protect their restored city from the neo-Nazis after an… 13/02/2010
The horror of Auschwitz 65 years onJanuary 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers enter Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the biggest concentration and extermination camp of the Third Reich. 7,000 of the camps… 26/01/2010
Peres meets German President before key speechIn Germany, Israeli President Shimon Peres began the second day of his state visit by meeting Horst Koehler, his German counterpart. He had travelled to the… 26/01/2010
Auschwitz sign stolenOne of the most poignant symbols of the Holocaust has been stolen. Overnight, the iron sign above the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp was taken… 18/12/2009
Nazi war crime trial underway in GermanyProbably the last Nazi war crimes trial is underway in Munich, Germany. John Demjanjuk, 89, was a camp guard and is accused of helping to force nearly… 30/11/2009
Merkel under pressure over WW2 museumAngel Merkel’s new coalition is facing its first test over a who will head a museum depicting the plight of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after World… 18/11/2009
Murder trial of Nazi stormtrooper opens in GermanyThe trial of a former SS soldier, who confessed to having killed three Dutch civilians has got underway in the German city of Aachan. The hearing was… 28/10/2009
Saviors in the Night“Saviors In the Night” is the true story of Marga Spiegel (played by Veronica Ferres in the film). She was hidden – along with her husband Seigfried, and her… 06/10/2009
Jewish resistance leader, Marek Edelman, diesTributes are flooding in, after the death of Marek Edelman. He was the last surviving leader of Jewish groups who fought against the Nazis, when they tried… 03/10/2009
World’s religious leaders make peace appealRepresentatives of the world’s great religions have attended a final ceremony, bringing their three-day International Congress for Peace in Krakow to an end… 08/09/2009
Religious leaders at Auschwitz to honour victimsAgainst the sombre backdrop of Auschwitz- Birkenau, representatives of major world religions have paid tribute to those who died in the Nazi’s most notorious… 08/09/2009
Winton Train recreates WWII refugee journeyIn this week of ceremonies marking the start of the Second World War, London has celebrated the deeds of a man dubbed “Britain’s Oscar Schindler.” As the… 04/09/2009
British evacuees remember the warWith war imminent, Britain decided to evacuate thousands of children from major cities to the safety of the countryside. Amidst the chaos 70 years ago, simple… 01/09/2009
Europe marks 70th anniversary of WWIILeaders from around Europe have marked the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II in a ceremony near the site where the first salvoes where fired… 01/09/2009
Row over 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact rages onIt began at a quarter to five in the morning, September the 1st, 1939. A German battleship in the then-Danzig harbour opened fire on a Polish garrison in the… 01/09/2009
Prague war refugees relive train evacuationAmong the poignant memories being evoked today is the story of the rescue of 669 children from the then Czechoslovakia on the eve of the war. Their… 01/09/2009
The fall of Poland – the prelude to WWIINearly 6 years of madness that broke forever Europe’s grip on the rudder of global affairs began today 70 years ago with the Nazi invasion of Poland. World… 01/09/2009
Putin wants new relations with PolandSeptember 1st marks the 70th anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland and the start of World War II. The Polish town of Wielun was the first victim of the… 31/08/2009
Glorious release for Inglourious BasterdsInglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarentino’s latest box office hit. Starring Brad Pitt and a host of other luminaries, this WWII revenge yarn is not for the… 26/08/2009
Japan marks end of WWIIJapan is commemorating the end of World War Two 64 years ago, tens of thousands of Japanese visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The name of the shrine… 15/08/2009
Life sentence welcomed by relatives of WWII atrocity victimsRelatives of the victims of a World War II atrocity in Italy have welcomed the life sentence handed down to a 90-year-old former Nazi army commander for his… 11/08/2009
Nazi war criminal jailed for lifeThe former commander of a German infantry unit has been jailed for life for killing 14 civilians in an Italian village during the the Second World War… 11/08/2009
Nazi war criminal gets life sentenceA 90-year-old former German infantry commander has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Munich. Josef Scheungraber denied ordering the… 11/08/2009
Verdict due in Nazi war crimes trial in GermanyA 91-year-old German man, accused of a Nazi war crime, is set to be sentenced by a court in Munich today. Former infantry commander Josef Scheungraber denies… 11/08/2009
Japan echoes calls for nuke-free worldJapan, the only country ever to suffer an atomic bomb attack, has called for a world free from nuclear weapons. At a ceremony in Hiroshima to mark the 64th… 06/08/2009
65th Anniversary of Warsaw UprisingThousands of Poles and a large number of second world war veterans have been marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. It was a heroic but… 01/08/2009
Demjanjuk charged with Holocaust atrocitiesA suspected Nazi death camp guard has been formally charged with helping to murder 27,000 Jews in World War II. The trial of John Demjanjuk, 89, will be… 13/07/2009
Demjanjuk declared fit to stand trialA man alleged to have helped to kill almost 30 thousand Jews in a Nazi death camp has been deemed fit to stand trial in Germany by doctors. John Demjanjuk… 03/07/2009
Charles to go to D-Day celebrationsPrince Charles is to attend the 65th D-Day anniversary celebrations in Normandy at the weekend after a last-minute Royal invitation from Paris. The… 02/06/2009
Russia marks WW2 Victory DayBathed in sunshine, Moscow’s Red Square hosted the commemorations for the end of World War Two. May 9th is traditionally seen here as the final surrender… 09/05/2009
France commemorates WW2 victoryPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has led French commemorations for the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Following the traditional military parade on the… 08/05/2009
France marks WW2 victoryPresident Nicolas Sarkozy has led the French commemorations for victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. After the traditional parade on the Champs Elysees… 08/05/2009
Kidman and Jackman star in Outback epicAustralia, starring two of the country’s best known exports – Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is a two hour 40 minute epic set in the outback during World War… 03/12/2008
