Second world war
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Handwritten Anne Frank poem sells at auction for £119,000Auction of 12-line text in Dutch from 1942, a rare example of the young Jewish girl’s handwriting for sale, took just two minutes
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Indonesia to investigate disappearance of WWII shipwrecks in Java SeaAuthorities agree to help solve mystery of six Dutch and British ships that vanished from seabed – believed salvaged for scrap
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Where memory leads: Saul Friedländer on the Holocaust, history and TrumpWith the US following Europe and Israel in lurching to the right, the Pulitzer-winning author of Nazi Germany and the Jews is ready to turn back to literature
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Britain's scavenged second world war ships not our fault, says IndonesiaJakarta says is cannot be expected to have protected sunken second world war warships destroyed by illegal scavenging
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Pacifist white poppies: record sales this yearSales of Peace Pledge Union flowers symbolising peace and commemorating war victims ‘exceeding 110,000 of last year’
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Missouri home contaminated by wartime radioactive waste, lawsuit saysCouple warns of continuing danger from second world war-era nuclear weapons program around St Louis, where uranium was processed
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WWII bomb found in Portsmouth exploded by Royal Navy squadronGerman bomb, the third explosive found since September, is towed out to area east of Isle of Wight for controlled detonation
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Mystery as wrecks of three Dutch WWII ships vanish from Java seabedThere are fears the sunken vessels off Indonesia, which are the graves of 2,200 people, may have been salvaged for metal
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Marijan Podpadec obituaryOther lives: One of the last people to work with ponies in the deep mines of Wales
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My Mother and Other Strangers review – romantic drama that doesn't quite fill the Poldark voidThis wistful tale of wartime American flyers causing ripples in a Lough Neagh community is well-worn. Plus, poignant Aussie crime drama Deep Water
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Graves of Muslim sailors who joined allies in WWII are rediscoveredGraves of 11 Indonesians who served with Allies given new headstones in Liverpool cemetery were they had been forgotten
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The Germans and Czechs trying to deal with ghosts of the pastOver 70 years after ethnic Germans were forced to leave Czechoslovakia following the second world war, we meet those attempting a reconciliation
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V2 rockets strike Britain - archive11 November 1944: There are people who say that they saw “a-silver pencil” hurtle from the sky that evening, and some who report they heard a short, sharp whistle
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Modern nationalism has its own distinct nature. Comparisons to past horrors are easy, but they threaten to blind us to the threats we face todayRemembrance of atrocities won’t save us from present dangers
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The great 'poppy war': how did we get here?As Fifa bans players from wearing poppies next week in the World Cup qualifiers, we ask when it all became so political
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Jews driven back to Germany by BrexitLetters: I am far happier to identify with the recent German opening up to refugees than with the narrow nationalism on display in Britain
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Civilians in wartime told to make their clothes last longer – archive4 November 1942: Scarce resources mean that it is bad form to appear in new clothes, say officials
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Wearing a poppy was a pledge of peace. Now it serves to sanitise warIt’s time to change British remembrance traditions to refocus on how we care for the victims of war – to remember what the flower of Flanders Field was for
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Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths on Hacksaw Ridge: 'Mel Gibson's never made a bad movie'Gibson comes out firing through the fog, smoke and stink of war in the ‘extraordinary true story’ about war hero Desmond T Doss
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Japanese band sparks anger with Nazi-style Halloween costumesPopular girl band Keyakizaka46 performs in outfits modelled on uniforms of Waffen-SS officers
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Descendants of Jewish refugees seek German citizenship after Brexit voteGerman authorities have reported twentyfold increase in applications for reserved citizenship from people living in UK
Austerlitz review – a thoughtful look at Holocaust tourism