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World War Two

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    Over 400 homes evacuated in Down while suspected WWII bomb is deactivated
    More armed conflicts were fought last year than any other since end of World War Two
    Pencil belonging to Hitler sells for £5,400, one tenth of pre-auction estimate
    Four injured after Second World War bomb explodes at Munich construction site
    60,000 people leave homes in Frankfurt so huge WWII bomb can be defused
    Remains of bodies from migrant boat that drowned 800 to be raised off Italy
    How a notorious Nazi war criminal was banned from his picturesque Waterford hideaway
    Goodbye letter from Dutch resistance fighter delivered 70 years on
    TV station uses Nazi Holocaust symbol in a story about Jewish holiday
    Apparently the Nazis were high on a crystal meth-style drug
    Japan's PM criticised for not apologising for forcing women into sex trade
    Watch this 92-year-old woman fly a Spitfire war plane
    Irish D-Day veteran awarded France's highest military honour
    The grim fate of Soviet and Italian troops sent to Nazi prisoner-of-war camps in World War II
    Column: Did you know Hitler had an Irish sister-in-law?
    Amy Bracken
    Hundreds attend 99-year-old man's funeral after appeal goes viral
    Japanese mayor: Wartime sex slaves were 'necessary'
    Revealed: Ireland's surveillance activities during World War Two
    Column: Sick of government spin? Well, it’s nothing new…
    Ciara Chambers
    Humiliated, tortured or executed: The little-known story of the Irish POWs
    Robert Widders
    Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man
    Poll: Should we wear poppies to honour the Irish war dead?
    Paris evacuates thousands over WWII bomb
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