# world-war-2 - Thursday 12 May, 2022
# Nato Membership
# Nato Membership
Rory Fitzgerald says we need to get real in the debate around Irish neutrality in the face of Russian aggression in Europe.
# world-war-2 - Monday 17 January, 2022
# Betrayal
# Betrayal
The Franks and four other Jews hid in an annex, reached by a secret staircase hidden behind a bookcase, from July 1942 until August 1944.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
# Brest
# Brest
The remains of hundreds of people have been found.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 30 December, 2018
# Georges Loinger
# Georges Loinger
Georges Loinger was himself imprisoned during the war but escaped.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
# Bomb Disposal
# Bomb Disposal
A bomb disposal team is on its way to the harbour.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 13 March, 2018
# Oskar Groening
# Oskar Groening
Oskar Groening was found guilty in 2015 of being an accessory to murder.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# USS Lexington
# USS Lexington
The wreckage was found over 800km off the eastern coast of Australia.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 4 February, 2018
# August Hirt
# August Hirt
SS doctor August Hirt tortured and mutilated jews in France.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 28 October, 2017
# Memorial
# Memorial
The Irish oak tree was planted to remember the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 19 August, 2017
# Hidden History
# Hidden History
Russell was an IRA chief of staff who died on a German u-boat in 1940.
# world-war-2 - Friday 11 August, 2017
# Yisrael Kristal
# Yisrael Kristal
Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and lived out his life in Israel.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 6 August, 2017
# World War 2
# World War 2
An event to remember the victims will take place in Dublin today.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Comfort Women
# Comfort Women
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II.
# world-war-2 - Monday 10 July, 2017
# World War 2
# World War 2
Researchers studied over 150,000 people for more than 45 years.
# world-war-2 - Monday 30 January, 2017
# Sean Spicer
# Sean Spicer
Spokesperson Sean Spicer says the media is ‘nitpicking’
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
# Bestseller
# Bestseller
It was initially planned to print only 4,000 copies of the Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto, but production was boosted after intense demand.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 29 October, 2016
# PRIVATE Museum
# PRIVATE Museum
The project hasn’t been universally welcomed.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 2 October, 2016
# Back In Time
# Back In Time
The headsets help prosecutors see if those accused could have seen what was happening.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 24 September, 2016
# The Emergenctea
# The Emergenctea
If you think you’re gasping for a cuppa at the end of a long day, you should have seen the country in 1941…
# world-war-2 - Thursday 4 August, 2016
# Heinrich Himmler
# Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler’s wartime diaries have been discovered.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 29 May, 2016
# Cash In The Axis
# Cash In The Axis
The Lorenz machine sold on eBay for £10.
# world-war-2 - Friday 18 March, 2016
# Going Going Gone
# Going Going Gone
The book from his Munich apartment sold for more than €18,000.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 28 February, 2016
# Mind Of A Tyrant
# Mind Of A Tyrant
The report was commissioned in 1943.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 24 January, 2016
# Ghosts Of The Past
# Ghosts Of The Past
Mamula island is situated in Kotor Bay in Montenegro.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 23 January, 2016
# Old Flames
# Old Flames
10,000 miles and seven decades are not enough to keep them away from each other, apparently.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 2 January, 2016
# Dark Past
# Dark Past
Rumours about looted art in the Kilmacthomas estate persisted for years.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 27 December, 2015
# Comfort Women
# Comfort Women
There’s continued tension between Japan and South Korea over the ‘comfort women’.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
# War Booty
# War Booty
Rumours persist that the train is buried in an underground tunnel.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
# Legion D'honeur
# Legion D'honeur
The 98 year old dedicated the award to all the Irish soldiers who fought in the war, saying they remain in his memory to this day.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 23 June, 2015
# 70th Anniversary
# 70th Anniversary
“We simply had no idea what to do. I was 17. We all thought we would be back at school in a week.”
# world-war-2 - Saturday 9 May, 2015
# Mother Russia
# Mother Russia
The Russian capital saw a massive WW2 parade despite a western boycott.
# world-war-2 - Friday 8 May, 2015
# VE Day
# VE Day
Victory in Europe (VE) Day was declared after Germany’s unconditional surrender in Berlin on 8 May, 1945.
# world-war-2 - Thursday 30 April, 2015
# Nazi Past
# Nazi Past
But Hitler’s Austrian birthplace still can’t deal with his legacy
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 31 March, 2015
# Ends Of The Earth
# Ends Of The Earth
Serge and Beath Klarsfeld hunted down Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.
# world-war-2 - Friday 16 January, 2015
# Neo Nazi Visitors
# Neo Nazi Visitors
The Nazi leader spent his early childhood in the building.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 9 December, 2014
# Oradour-sur-Glane
# Oradour-sur-Glane
There was not enough evidence to charge the man, a former member of the SS.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 29 October, 2014
# Living Legend
# Living Legend
Sir Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czech children to safety in 1939.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 17 September, 2014
# Holocaust
# Holocaust
Oskar Groening is accused of managing money and property stolen from victims.
# world-war-2 - Monday 9 June, 2014
# Heartless
# Heartless
Police in London say the suspected burglar had an Irish accent.
# world-war-2 - Friday 6 June, 2014
Brief morning showers, then a shower
Max: 18 °C
Min: 13 °C
A.M. rain, then some rain and a t-storm
Max: 21 °C
Min: 11 °C
Clouds and sun with a shower; breezy
Max: 19 °C
Min: 11 °C
