The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

Foreign audiences often associate German cinema with tragedy, trauma and death. Certainly, major historical events such as the second world war and the Fall of the Berlin Wall — cornerstones of German film — are present in this year’s selection at the 2025 German Film Festival.

The Trump administration’s decision to distance itself from Nato obligations signals a potential dismantling of the historical transatlantic order – and not merely in military terms. As the United States disengages from European affairs and cuts ties with what secretary of defense Pete Hegseth called Nato’s “pathetic” freeloaders, it is…

The world is in the midst of one of the most serious political crises since the end of the Second World War.

The First Minister said it was important to remember the sacrifices of the past while war rages on in parts of the world today.

Labour MP Alex Mayer used a Commons debate to make the case for double British summer time, which was adopted during the Second World War.

The Ministry of Defence stressed this death toll would be Russia’s ‘largest losses since the Second World War’

Pages about Native Americans who helped US send messages in world wars removed in Pentagon ‘DEI’ purge

Celia Clark writes: His murals vividly depict life in the dockyard city of Portsmouth as it recovered from the second world war

Twenty years ago, French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers massacred by the French army during the Second World War, shot for demanding unpaid wages.…