Who defeated the Nazis and ended World War II? It’s a matter of disputed historical memory.
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Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.
A podcast detailing the wartime diary of 26-year-old Lorna Lloyd resonated deeply with participants of a new study.
Those asking how to counter the far right might look at the communities in Italy where partisan resistance was strong.
Ukrainians fear that what happened to Poland after the second world war could happen to their country.
Why is it that, after all these years, we continue to meet We’ll Meet Again again, and again and again?
Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach us about the meaning of life.
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade is being seen as a symbol of how well the Ukraine war is going.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
Just as it did 75 years ago, the UK government has a chance to build back better from a crisis.
Popularised during the second world war, the song has found new resonance during the Coronavirus pandemic.
There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
Just like now, Britain’s war effort depended on the sacrifice of migrants and minorities. But this was soon forgotten.
It was a great celebration, but not everyone was jubilant.
Britain’s newspaper’s reported some wild scenes as the nation celebrated, but none wilder than in the Daily Mirror’s cartoon strip.
Recent historical research has revealed that after the Nazis surrendered at end the Second World War, thousands of German women were raped by Allied forces.
On Memorial Day, reflecting on the meaning of the ‘liberation’ of Europe 70 years on.
Commemoration and memory is being re-politicised, and this could have worrying consequences.
VE Day came after a week of frustrating rumour and failed to meet the expectations put upon it.
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