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Rory Fitzgerald says we need to get real in the debate around Irish neutrality in the face of Russian aggression in Europe.
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.
The remains of hundreds of people have been found.
Georges Loinger was himself imprisoned during the war but escaped.
A bomb disposal team is on its way to the harbour.
Oskar Groening was found guilty in 2015 of being an accessory to murder.
The wreckage was found over 800km off the eastern coast of Australia.
SS doctor August Hirt tortured and mutilated jews in France.
The Irish oak tree was planted to remember the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.
Russell was an IRA chief of staff who died on a German u-boat in 1940.
Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and lived out his life in Israel.
An event to remember the victims will take place in Dublin today.
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II.
Researchers studied over 150,000 people for more than 45 years.
Spokesperson Sean Spicer says the media is ‘nitpicking’
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.
The project hasn’t been universally welcomed.
The headsets help prosecutors see if those accused could have seen what was happening.
If you think you’re gasping for a cuppa at the end of a long day, you should have seen the country in 1941…
Heinrich Himmler’s wartime diaries have been discovered.
The Lorenz machine sold on eBay for £10.
The book from his Munich apartment sold for more than €18,000.
The report was commissioned in 1943.
Mamula island is situated in Kotor Bay in Montenegro.
10,000 miles and seven decades are not enough to keep them away from each other, apparently.
Rumours about looted art in the Kilmacthomas estate persisted for years.
There’s continued tension between Japan and South Korea over the ‘comfort women’.
Rumours persist that the train is buried in an underground tunnel.
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.
“We simply had no idea what to do. I was 17. We all thought we would be back at school in a week.”
The Russian capital saw a massive WW2 parade despite a western boycott.
Victory in Europe (VE) Day was declared after Germany’s unconditional surrender in Berlin on 8 May, 1945.
But Hitler’s Austrian birthplace still can’t deal with his legacy
Serge and Beath Klarsfeld hunted down Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.
The Nazi leader spent his early childhood in the building.
There was not enough evidence to charge the man, a former member of the SS.
Sir Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czech children to safety in 1939.
Oskar Groening is accused of managing money and property stolen from victims.
Police in London say the suspected burglar had an Irish accent.