# world-war-ii - Sunday 1 September, 2019
Nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall.
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# world-war-ii - Thursday 6 June, 2019
D-Day is seen by many as one of the great symbols of transatlantic cooperation.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
The former RAF navigator never managed to escape the camp in events later portrayed in the Steve McQueen film.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 6 November, 2018
The German man is charged with complicity in mass murder at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.
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# world-war-ii - Monday 3 September, 2018
The sign was revealed by recent wildfires after lying hidden for many years.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 4 August, 2018
The signs were used during World War II to guide pilots, as Ireland was a neutral country.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 24 June, 2018
The year-long exhibition will take place in Monaghan.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
Brown paper had been used to cover pages in her first diary.
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# world-war-ii - Friday 20 April, 2018
The 500 kilo bomb was found on a construction site.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
The wreckage was found over 800km off the eastern coast of Australia.
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# world-war-ii - Friday 2 March, 2018
To date, Poland has not made an official demand.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 13 February, 2018
Up to 16,000 passengers were affected by yesterday’s closure.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 3 February, 2018
More than 45,000 stolen objects have been handed back to their rightful owners since World War II.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 25 November, 2017
It’s believed that the original recipient of the brooch, a woman named Hinda Weiksel, died in Auschwitz at the hands of the Nazis.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 11 November, 2017
The event was marked by the laying of wreaths at the France-Ireland memorial and Cross of Sacrifice.
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# world-war-ii - Friday 29 September, 2017
Police and a fire brigade were called to the scene earlier this afternoon.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 3 September, 2017
The operation is the biggest evacuation of its kind in post-war Germany.
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# world-war-ii - Thursday 31 August, 2017
The operation will allow for the safe defusal of the bomb, which German media said was nicknamed “Wohnblockknacker” (blockbuster).
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# world-war-ii - Thursday 10 August, 2017
A bomb disposal team has been sent in to make the scene safe.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 16 July, 2017
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 21 May, 2017
Thousands of slaves were forced to work on Hitler’s secret weapon: the V2 rockets.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 7 May, 2017
Seven retirement and nursing homes were affected and some rail traffic through the city was disrupted.
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# world-war-ii - Monday 10 April, 2017
Francois Hollande and Jacques Chirac have apologised for the role that French police played in the past.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 26 March, 2017
Their story is told in a new Hollywood film called The Zookeeper’s Wife.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 12 March, 2017
Around 200,000 women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during WWII.
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# world-war-ii - Monday 27 February, 2017
An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 children from institutions and poor families were shipped to Australia from 1922 to 1967.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 5 February, 2017
Harry and Ahmed tell their stories to Unicef.
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# world-war-ii - Friday 3 February, 2017
The High Court had ruled in 2015 that Sergey Chesnokov had established he was born on Dublin’s Henrietta Street.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 28 January, 2017
Since 2001, 104 Nazis have been convicted over their roles in the Holocaust.
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# world-war-ii - Wednesday 28 December, 2016
He and President Obama laid wreathes at the site of the attack.
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# world-war-ii - Monday 28 November, 2016
New Irish foreign policy documents suggest that the wartime Prime Minister may have had unexpected feelings regarding Ireland’s partition.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 22 November, 2016
World Jewish Conference delegates hear Higgins address concerns over ‘walls’ and ‘fear’ challenging the world.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 24 September, 2016
If you think you’re gasping for a cuppa at the end of a long day, you should have seen the country in 1941…
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 17 July, 2016
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.
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# world-war-ii - Wednesday 10 February, 2016
D Day veteran Norwood Thomas has travelled to Australia to be with his long-lost love Joyce Morris.
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# world-war-ii - Saturday 23 January, 2016
10,000 miles and seven decades are not enough to keep them away from each other, apparently.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 3 January, 2016
(If you speak Dutch).
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# world-war-ii - Friday 20 November, 2015
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuv said Paris received no warnings about Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
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# world-war-ii - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
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.
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# world-war-ii - Sunday 1 November, 2015
“There is a German peculiarity of worrying about what others might say.”
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Rain and drizzle; breezy this morning
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Cloudy with a little rain
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A couple of showers in the morning
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