Video: WWII bomb detonated in Munich by disposal experts
Explosion damaged nearby properties, but none are in danger of collapse, according to local media reports.
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Explosion damaged nearby properties, but none are in danger of collapse, according to local media reports.
August Kowalczyk was among a group of nine Polish inmates who succeeded in escaping from the Nazi concentration camp in June 1942.
Missile silos and Nazi bunkers have been converted into habitable homes, while other designers are focused on preparing shelters for surviving catastrophes.
Puzzles on the search engine’s website are commemorating the 100th anniversary of Turing’s birth.
Defence Forces members who fought with the Allies in WWII were persecuted in Ireland for desertion.
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s 15th-century door is to go on display at a Florence museum from September.
The Normandy landings got underway on this day 68 years ago.
James Island carries a $75m price tag and comes complete with an airstrip, 780 acres and guaranteed solitude.
A new video posted by StoryMap.ie tells the story of Hermann Goertz who came to Ireland during WWII.
Irish supporters planning on visiting the grounds of the death camp in southern Poland next month will have to dress appropriately, officials said.
Plane which crashed in June 1942 has been found after 70 years in the desert.
Some 650 Irish soldiers were taken prisoner by the Japanese during WW2. They were starved, beaten, even crucified – but showed incredible bravery, writes historian Robert Widders.
Edward Kennedy was fired after reporting the unconditional surrender of German generals to Allied forces.
Around 200,000 survivors live in Israel.
Turing, known as the father of modern computing, helped give the Allies their biggest tactical advantage against the Axis forces but died an ignominious death.
Historians say that records of 132m people will offer new details about a transformative decade in America amid the Great Depression recovery.
A German court has ruled a Berlin museum must return rare posters seized by the Gestapo during WWII to the victim’s relative – saying that keeping them would be a perpetuation of the crimes of the Nazis.
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A bookshop in England says it discovered the previously undistributed WWII posted in a box of books.
Seventy years ago this month, the US began sending thousands of its citizens into an internment camp in Manzanar, California.Here are Ansel Adams’ photos of that camp.
They “contributed to the freedom of Europe” but were met with “starvation orders” when they got home. Should those 5,000 soldiers who fought for the Allies against Hitler’s forces be pardoned for deserting the Irish army?
The Polish Forestry Service hopes to turn the infamous Nazi war base – known as the Wolf’s Lair – into a tourist attraction.
The 10ft unexploded bomb is one of the largest to be discovered in Germany since the end of the Second World War.
The destruction of files relating to around 250 BND employees was discovered during a historical inquiry into the organisation’s links with Nazi Germany.
More than 50,000 Irish people died in the First and Second World Wars. Should we wear the poppy to commemorate them?
The conviction of a 91-year-old man in May of accessory to murder for serving as a WWII death camp guard has led to a recheck of potentially similar cases.
Germany has argued that Italian courts have no right to demand that it pay compensation to Nazi war victims, saying that national courts should not be permitted jurisdiction over other countries.
After searching European and American archives from WWII, author Hal Vaughan claims he has found proof that Coco Chanel was an active Nazi agent during war.
The radio show host also compared Obama’s position on the US debt crisis to the early days of Hitler’s administration.
An American pilot was aboard the Spitfire when it came down in a Donegal bog. He bailed out from the plane, but it has remained beneath the surface for 70 years.
The elderly woman confessed to the high-profile murder of a man over six decade ago, explaining that she mistakenly believed he had collaborated with the Nazis.
The remains of many of the US troops who fought in the Philippines in World War II have never been recovered.
Project described as a “last minute rescue operation” to preserve the memories of Jewish people killed in WWII begins collecting items saved and cherished by surviving family members.
Nazi agents planned to assassinate Allied troops using poisoned foodstuffs and painkillers, as well as swastika emblazoned belt buckles that hid pistols.
Newly-released documents show how Éamon De Valera colluded with the British authorities to crush the IRA.
Recently released personal photographs show the private lives of one of the 20th century’s most hated dictators and the woman who loved him.
Allied group employed bizarre tactics for illusion and deception in their World War II counter-intelligence operations.
RAF bomb discovered last week in suburb of Paris was defused yesterday by military experts, forcing about 6,000 people to be evacuated from their homes.