# world-war-ii - Wednesday 19 May, 2021
# Germany
# Germany
Bomb disposal teams are due to detonate the explosive once they cover it with soil.
# world-war-ii - Thursday 21 January, 2021
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
405,400 people have died from the disease, more than the 405,399 total US combat and non-combat deaths in WWII.
# world-war-ii - Monday 6 July, 2020
# Hamburg
# Hamburg
Bruno Dey is accused of complicity in the murder of 5,230 people when he worked at the Stutthof camp.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 1 September, 2019
# World War II
# World War II
Nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall.
# world-war-ii - Thursday 6 June, 2019
# Ceremony
# Ceremony
D-Day is seen by many as one of the great symbols of transatlantic cooperation.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
# RIP
# RIP
The former RAF navigator never managed to escape the camp in events later portrayed in the Steve McQueen film.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
# War Crimes
# War Crimes
The German man is charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II .
# world-war-ii - Monday 3 September, 2018
# Neutrality Marking
# Neutrality Marking
The sign was revealed by recent wildfires after lying hidden for many years.
# world-war-ii - Saturday 4 August, 2018
# Look-out Posts
# Look-out Posts
The signs were used during World War II to guide pilots, as Ireland was a neutral country.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 24 June, 2018
# Monaghan Museum
# Monaghan Museum
The year-long exhibition will take place in Monaghan.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
# World War II
# World War II
Brown paper had been used to cover pages in her first diary.
# world-war-ii - Friday 20 April, 2018
# Mitte
# Mitte
The 500 kilo bomb was found on a construction site.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# USS Lexington
# USS Lexington
The wreckage was found over 800km off the eastern coast of Australia.
# world-war-ii - Friday 2 March, 2018
# Expensive
# Expensive
To date, Poland has not made an official demand.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 13 February, 2018
# Back To Normal
# Back To Normal
Up to 16,000 passengers were affected by yesterday’s closure.
# world-war-ii - Saturday 3 February, 2018
# Nazis
# Nazis
More than 45,000 stolen objects have been handed back to their rightful owners since World War II .
# world-war-ii - Saturday 25 November, 2017
# Link To The Past
# Link To The Past
It’s believed that the original recipient of the brooch, a woman named Hinda Weiksel, died in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis.
# world-war-ii - Saturday 11 November, 2017
# Armistice Day
# Armistice Day
The event was marked by the laying of wreaths at the France-Ireland memorial and Cross of Sacrifice.
# world-war-ii - Friday 29 September, 2017
# Heavy Metal
From The42
# Heavy Metal
Police and a fire brigade were called to the scene earlier this afternoon.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 3 September, 2017
# Blockbuster
# Blockbuster
The operation is the biggest evacuation of its kind in post-war Germany.
# world-war-ii - Thursday 31 August, 2017
# Blockbuster
# Blockbuster
The operation will allow for the safe defusal of the bomb, which German media said was nicknamed “Wohnblockknacker” (blockbuster).
# world-war-ii - Thursday 10 August, 2017
# Unexploded Bomb
# Unexploded Bomb
A bomb disposal team has been sent in to make the scene safe.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 16 July, 2017
# Comfort Women
# Comfort Women
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II .
# world-war-ii - Sunday 21 May, 2017
# Hitler
# Hitler
Thousands of slaves were forced to work on Hitler’s secret weapon: the V2 rockets.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 7 May, 2017
# Hanover
# Hanover
Seven retirement and nursing homes were affected and some rail traffic through the city was disrupted.
# world-war-ii - Monday 10 April, 2017
# Revisionist
# Revisionist
Francois Hollande and Jacques Chirac have apologised for the role that French police played in the past.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 26 March, 2017
# On Screen
# On Screen
Their story is told in a new Hollywood film called The Zookeeper’s Wife.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 12 March, 2017
# World War II
# World War II
Around 200,000 women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during WWII.
# world-war-ii - Monday 27 February, 2017
# Inquiry
# Inquiry
An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 children from institutions and poor families were shipped to Australia from 1922 to 1967.
# world-war-ii - Sunday 5 February, 2017
# UNICEF
# UNICEF
Harry and Ahmed tell their stories to Unicef.
# world-war-ii - Friday 3 February, 2017
# World War II
# World War II
The High Court had ruled in 2015 that Sergey Chesnokov had established he was born on Dublin’s Henrietta Street.
# world-war-ii - Saturday 28 January, 2017
# World War II
# World War II
Since 2001, 104 Nazis have been convicted over their roles in the Holocaust.
# world-war-ii - Wednesday 28 December, 2016
# 75 Years
# 75 Years
He and President Obama laid wreathes at the site of the attack.
# world-war-ii - Monday 28 November, 2016
# Unite Them On The Beaches
# Unite Them On The Beaches
New Irish foreign policy documents suggest that the wartime Prime Minister may have had unexpected feelings regarding Ireland’s partition.
# world-war-ii - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
# Speech
# Speech
World Jewish Conference delegates hear Higgins address concerns over ‘walls’ and ‘fear’ challenging the world.
# world-war-ii - 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-ii - Sunday 17 July, 2016
# Photography
# Photography
The following photos, from the US Library of Congress, give us a rare glimpse of life in the US during World War II in colour.
# world-war-ii - Wednesday 10 February, 2016
# Star-crossed
# Star-crossed
D Day veteran Norwood Thomas has travelled to Australia to be with his long-lost love Joyce Morris.
# world-war-ii - 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-ii - Sunday 3 January, 2016
Partly sunny with a brief shower or two
Max: 16 °C
Min: 11 °C
Partly sunny
Max: 17 °C
Min: 10 °C
