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This 1993 Liam Neeson film is considered one of the greatest movies of all time

Liam Neeson’s role in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List remains a career highlight. The film portrays Oskar Schindler’s transformation during the Second World War and earned seven Academy Awards for its powerful storytelling. Neeson’s performance also received nominations from major award bodies. Both Spielberg and Neeson have reflected on the profound…

The Economic Times

Danube River reveals Nazi warships hidden underwater for 80 years: Record-low water levels are exposing the World War II wrecks near Serbia

The Danube River has fallen to exceptionally low levels this summer, exposing the remains of Nazi-era warships that have spent more than eight decades beneath its waters near Prahovo, Serbia. The wrecks are part of a much larger graveyard of vessels deliberately sunk in 1944 as German forces retreated from…

The Times of India

Drones to hunt for unexploded Second World War bombs exposed by wildfire

Dunwich Heath was used as a training ground during the Second World War and since the fire, two unexploded ordnance have been found.

Evening Standard

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Mystery solved: story of Wehrmacht motorbike found in the Danube

Record low water on the Danube has revealed in Budapest a perfectly preserved Wehrmacht DKW NZ 350-1 motorbike from WWII. Euronews investigates its role, its factory origins, when it may have sunk, and whether the dead nearby were its riders.

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First look images of Call The Midwife Christmas special released as filming finishes

Call The Midwife: Sisters In Arms will be a prequel to the original BBC series, set in Poplar in September 1939 during the outbreak of the Second World War

The Independent UK

We need a wartime mindset to fight the threat of wildfires

While many leaders compare the wildfire crisis to the second world war, governments fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action

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The Guardian view on French cinema’s De Gaulle moment: present anxieties inform a new focus on the past

Editorial: A wave of films dealing with the second world war is captivating a nation facing major contemporary challenges

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Zack Polanski calls for Prime Minister to force fossil fuel firms to cover costs of tackling wildfires

Zack Polanski was joined by BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham as he warned: ‘We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War’

Evening Standard

Zack Polanski says fossil fuel producers must pay for firefighting helicopters

‘We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War,’ Green Party leader Zack Polanski said.

Evening Standard

Low water levels: EU clears old Nazi warships from the Danube

Near Prahovo in Serbia, relics of the Second World War emerge when river levels are low. On the riverbed lie numerous wrecks of German warships scuttled by their crews in 1944 as they retreated from the Red Army.

Euronews

Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading

Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…

The Conversation

At a time of harder borders and ‘ruthless’ rhetoric, the Refugee Convention is more important than ever

This month marks 75 years since the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28 1951. Negotiated in the aftermath of the second world war, the treaty came into force three years later after Australia became the sixth country to ratify it.

The Conversation

Nagaland Is the Northeast Indian State That Will Rearrange Your Assumptions About India

The India you thought you knew stops at the foothillsKohima sits at roughly 1,500 metres above sea level, and the air there does something immediate to your assumptions. The town is the capital of Nagaland, a state that shares borders with Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh, and it looks nothing like…

Times Life

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: the man who braved 'consequences' to save thousands from Nazis

On Sunday 19 July, Portugal marked 141 years since the birth of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the diplomat who saved over 30,000 from Nazi persecution in WWII. A museum there is dedicated to his life and legacy.

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The Independent UK

Does today mark the 90th anniversary of the real start of the Second World War?

A KEY DATE IN HISTORY: Exactly nine decades ago, a war in south-west Europe started in which the Germans perfected their weaponry and tactics, David Keys explains

The Times of India

A Japanese soldier stayed hidden in a Philippine jungle for 29 years because he believed World War II never ended

In March 1974, a gaunt, uniformed figure walked out of the jungle on Lubang Island in the Philippines and handed over his sword, ending a war that had, for him, never actually stopped. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese army lieutenant who had been sent to Lubang late in the Second…

The Times of India

Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of…"

Franklin D. Roosevelt said this in a speech on the fourteenth of April, 1939, months before the Second World War began. "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds," he told the audience. "They have within themselves the power to become free at any moment."…

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The new technologies in the UK defence investment plan

Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war.

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WW2 bomb detonated on Scottish beach after dozens of unexploded ordnance found

A BOMB from the Second World War that was discovered on a beach in East Lothian has been detonated following a safety warning from the Coastguard ...

The Independent UK

Trump claims communism is bigger threat to US than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor

Donald Trump has claimed that communism is a bigger threat to the US than the First World War, the Second World War, 9/11, and Pearl Harbor.

The Conversation

The international legal order is broken: 2 key shifts needed to fix it

The international legal order that was created after the second world war is no longer fit for purpose. Its response to urgent global problems like climate, poverty and pandemics is inadequate. Its key institutions like the United Nations are incapable of restoring peace in Ukraine, Iran, Sudan or the Democratic…

The Conversation

Why is the UK now changing prime minister every few years?

This is not the UK’s first leadership transition in government, and it is unlikely to be the last. These events have, however, been rare until recently. In the 80 years since the end of the second world war, there have only been 18 prime ministers. The nineteenth, likely to be…

The Conversation

Donald Trump’s popularity is at an all-time low. History says that matters

In his first term of office Donald Trump achieved the lowest average job approval ratings (41%) among Americans since the end of the second world war. In his second term he has fallen well below that with an approval rating of only 35% in a recent Economist/YouGov poll.

The Times of India

Man discovers 80-year-old family treasure using a map drawn by his father

A hand-drawn map, passed from father to son and kept for decades, eventually led to the recovery of a family treasure hidden during one of Europe's most turbulent periods. What began as a story told across generations became a real-life search stretching over many years, ending with the discovery of…

The Economic Times

On This Day in History, June 10: Troy falls, Italy enters WWII, Jurassic Park premieres, Thatcher wins for 3rd time, FIFA World Cup opens and other key events

On This Day in History, June 10 witnessed events that ranged from the legendary destruction of Troy and the birth of Gothic architecture to major developments during the Second World War and the opening of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The date also saw milestones in aviation,…

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