Second World War

The man who saved London from Hitler has been totally forgotten

All sorts of nonentities are honoured with statues but there is nothing to commemorate the role of French resistance hero Michel Hollard

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The man who saved London from Hitler has been totally forgotten

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Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism

By Richard Percival

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A picture taken on September 14, 2017 shows bottles of wine with pictures of Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin at a shop in the center of Rome. Italy's lower house of Parliament voted for the introduction of an article in the penal code punishing "anyone who propagates the images or contents of the Italian former Fascist Party or the German former Nazist Party" affects production, distribution, diffusion or sale of goods depicting people, images or symbols, and increase of one-third of the punishment for the crimes committed through the web, the rectification of the law is now awaiting voting in the Senate. / AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Books

Eternal review - The fate of Italy’s Jews made clear despite the froth

By Jenni Frazer

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Second World War

Government to launch Channel Island concentration camps inquiry

By Felix Pope

1 min read

PORTSMOUTH, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 04: Former glider pilot Frank Ashleigh, aged 92, stands by a taxi before setting off to the beaches of Normandy with the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans on June 4, 2017 in Portsmouth, England. A convoy of over 90 London taxis organised by the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans left Portsmouth on Sunday carrying veterans of World War II back to the battlegrounds of Normandy, the location of the D-Day landings. The journey to Northern France will be the last large-scale trip organised by the charity, as the number of veterans from the conflict who are able to travel declines. The 73rd anniversary of the D-Day landings which will be commerated on June 6, saw 156,000 troops from the allied countries including the United Kingdom and the United States join forces to launch an audacious attack on the beaches of Normandy and these assaults are credited with aiding the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Obituary

Obituary: Frank Ashleigh

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circa 1940: French officer Marshal Petain (1856 - 1951). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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France on Trial review: The Case of Marshal Pétain - Jewish saviour or antisemite?

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Austrian town honours Jewish doctor who returned after being expelled during Nazi era

Memorial erected in Fischamend in memory of Dr Richard Winter, who was forced to leave the town in 1938 because he was a Jew but returned to care for its people after the war

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

June 30, 2023 08:55

Austrian town honours Jewish doctor who returned after being expelled during Nazi era

Holocaust survivor and Army veteran receives surprise war medals on 100th birthday

Henny Franks fled Nazi persecution in Cologne, western Germany, on the kindertransport as a teenager

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

June 29, 2023 11:00

Holocaust survivor and Army veteran receives surprise war medals on 100th birthday

Finland government minister apologises for making Hitler joke

Vilhelm Junnila, from the far-right Finns Party, was only sworn-in to his new role on Tuesday

By JC Reporter

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June 23, 2023 11:22

Finland government minister apologises for making Hitler joke

Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

Diplomat Meryl Frank spent years tracing the wartime fate of her Lithuanian relative. But the truth was sitting on her bookshelf

By Jenni Frazer

6 min read

June 23, 2023 08:53

Quest to discover the lost actress of Vilnius who is full of mystery

Polish Kindertransport memorial restored to its Gdansk city centre site

Statue by city boy who fled on last children’s train in 1939 is rededicated in special ceremony

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

June 14, 2023 15:05

Gdańsk. Powrót w przestrzeń publiczną Pomnika Kindertransportów

Vienna spends £430,000 tilting statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees instead of ripping it down

The statue daubed with word ‘Shame’ has been a battleground for years

By Liam Hoare

1 min read

June 5, 2023 11:12

Vienna spends £430,000 tilting statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees instead of ripping it down

Obituary: Professor Peter Pulzer

Refugee scholar who analysed how Austrian and German nationalism fostered Nazism

By Geoffrey Alderman

3 min read

May 25, 2023 08:38

Film review: Sisu - Finnish bravery shines through in war thriller

Filmmaker Jalmari Helander mixes thrilling action sequences with nifty Sergio Leon-esque spaghetti western tropes

By Linda Marric

1 min read

May 24, 2023 15:10

Film review: Sisu - Finnish bravery shines through in war thriller

By Rafael Behr

WWII is slipping away into realm of mythology

The use of the Third Reich to score political points or make glib analogies betrays our past

3 min read

May 11, 2023 13:01

The U.S. and the Holocaust,09-01-2023,Nazi Party meeting or rally. Sign in back reads "Kauft nicht bei Juden" - Don't buy from Jews.,National Archives and Record Administration NARA,Unknown

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Second World War

The man who saved London from Hitler has been totally forgotten

Meet the Muslim and Jew who saved each others lives in conflicts decades apart

Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism

Eternal review - The fate of Italy’s Jews made clear despite the froth

Government to launch Channel Island concentration camps inquiry

Obituary: Frank Ashleigh

France on Trial review: The Case of Marshal Pétain - Jewish saviour or antisemite?

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