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Unexpected humour and reflections on a complex past: my top 5 films from the 2025 German Film Festival

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.

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Ventotene manifesto: why European politicians are arguing over a 1941 document written by a group of imprisoned Italian antifascists

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…

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Starmer says ‘I don’t trust Putin’ as Russian leader promises 72-hour ceasefire

Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral three-day ceasefire to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

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We’re throwing the Moomins a birthday party – and you’re invited

Tove Jansson published her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, 80 years ago, in 1945. The story follows a family of hippo-like creatures called “Moomintrolls”, who become refugees after a flood washes away their home. Written at the end of the second world war, when millions were…

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80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?

This Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. The following day, his body was publicly desecrated in Milan.

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Daffodils to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the largest armed Jewish uprising during the Second World War. Today, the daffodil has become a symbol of commemoration.

Euronews

With Trump in power, the world must fight the new culture of intimidation

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

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Swinney pays tribute to hero uncle who won posthumous Victoria Cross in 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.

Evening Standard

Minister rejects call for Britain to adopt ‘Churchill Time’ in the summer

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.

Evening Standard

Up to 250,000 Russian soldiers killed in Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, say UK defence chiefs

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

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Articles about Native American code talkers removed from military websites

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

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Letter: Eric Rimmington obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

Visual retelling of Thiaroye massacre sheds new light on French colonial atrocity

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.…

Radio France Internationale

Andrew Gwynne under investigation by parliamentary watchdog over WhatsApp group – as it happened

MP, who was suspended from Labour party earlier this month, investigated for ‘actions causing significant damage’ to the reputation of the Commons

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The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna

A slice-of-life portrait of a community suffering the after-effects of the second world war

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Brutalism: Oscar-nominated film has revived interest in a controversial architectural legacy

With ten Oscar nominations, The Brutalist has reignited the debate over the legacy of brutalism. The polarising architectural style was shaped by post-war hopes for a better future. But it was also, as historian Adrian Forty argues in his book Concrete and Culture (2012), an “expression of melancholy, the work…

Radio France Internationale

France pushes for Unesco status for D-Day beaches and Carcassonne fortresses

France's Ministry of Culture on Monday filed an application to have the beaches in Normandy that were the site of the D-Day landings during the Second World War and the medieval fortresses of Carcassonne added to Unesco's list of World Heritage Sites.

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Education for peace: the effort to teach children how to rebuild societies after WWII

While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war marked a pivotal period in how young people have experienced the horrors of war.

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How the brain can miraculously switch off pain

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required no strong painkillers to manage their pain. In some cases, the injury was as severe as losing part of a limb.

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How rural English women used scrapbooks to commemorate the death of Winston Churchill

Sixty years ago, on January 24, Britons gathered around their radios to listen to the sombre BBC announcement that Sir Winston Churchill had died at the age of 90. Others learned about the news at church, as they listened to prayers for the life of the former prime minister, admired…

The Walrus

Did Canada Really Just Build a $7.5 Million Monument That Honours Nazis?

Because it sure looks that way

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor calls for tolerance because ‘we all come from same family’

Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War.

Evening Standard

Holocaust Memorial Day: London survivor, 92, calls for tolerance because ‘we all come from same family’

Janine Webber BEM, 92, hid under a wardrobe with her family to avoid Nazi persecution during the Second World War

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Germany’s snap election: playing for the highest of stakes

Editorial: February’s election is shaping up to be one of the most consequential since the second world war

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Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes

Australians are no strangers to housing crises. Some will even remember the crisis that followed the second world war. As well as producing the popular mid-century modern style of architecture, these post-war decades were a time of struggle.

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