World War II

Queen Elizabeth II was 'a figure of enormous stability for the UK'

Poland seeks €1.3 trillion from Germany in reparations for Nazi occupation

Vichy France’s ‘biggest stain’? The August 1942 roundup, 80 years on

‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on

European rivers' receding waters reveal ancient stones, World War II relics

Police in China arrest cosplayer for ‘wearing a kimono’ near anniversary of Japan’s WWII surrender

The Dieppe Raid: ‘Canada’s single bloodiest day’ of World War II, 80 years on

France 'betrayed itself' with the Vél d'Hiv roundup, says President Macron

France: Remembering Henri Bek, a Jewish boy captured during the July 1942 roundups

Holocaust: The last witnesses to the Vél d'Hiv roundup

Holocaust: Meeting the last witnesses to the Vél d'Hiv roundup, 80 years on

Eighty years after France’s Vél d'Hiv roundup of Jews, its last survivors recount ordeal

German prosecutors in race against time to try last Nazis over WWII crimes

80 years ago Anne Frank started her diary, a landmark of world literature

The Holocaust in Latvia: Author Linda Kinstler on her family's role and collective memory

Veterans return to Normandy to mark 78th anniversary of D-Day landing

Veterans return to Normandy to mark 78th anniversary of D-Day landing

The spy inside Auschwitz: The true story of Polish resistance fighter Witold Pilecki

‘Rejuvenating French pride’: The Battle of Bir Hakeim, 80 years on

The imposition of the yellow star on Jews in France, 80 years on

New French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, daughter of a stateless Auschwitz survivor

Thiaroye 44: Investigating a colonial-era massacre in Senegal

'Thiaroye 44': New documentary explores 1944 massacre of West African soldiers

Ukraine: Kyiv mayor says nearly two-thirds of residents have returned