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Nazi war criminals fled to S America after WWII

An estimated 9,000 Nazis, including Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann and Auschwitz Dr Josef Men...

1-ton WWII-era bomb discovered near Marseille port

It was discovered a week ago by construction workers who accidentally pierced the explosive with the...

Libya sorry for desecration of WWII graves: UK

Some 1,214 Commonwealth troops who died in the battles of World War II are buried at the Benghazi Wa...

Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries

Nearly 70 years after war, over 100 British and American aircraft wrecks are believed scattered ac...

Massive WWII bomb succesfully defused in Germany

Firefighters say a massive British World War II-era bomb that triggered the evacuation of half of Ge...

Germany: 45,000 evacuated to defuse WWII bomb

Officials in Germany`s western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as off...

Great Australian WWII heroine dies at 98

Australian PM said Nancy Wake was a devastatingly effective saboteur and spy.

Hitler’s ‘code-cracking’ Tunny machine restored by UK museum

The Tunny machines played an important role in disentangling Allied interceptions of the coded order...

Israel mourns 6 mn Jewish Holocaust victims of WWII

Israeli PM has warned that the nation must not dismiss Iran`s threats to its existence.

WWII hero dies in Nepali village home

Tul Bahadur Pun was awarded Victoria Cross for his heroics in Burma in 1944.

Japan digs site linked to WWII human experiments

Japan has begun excavations at a former medical school to search for human remains.

Japanese leader visits WWII battle site Iwo Jima

Making a rare trip to Iwo Jima, Japanese PM Naoto Kan paid his respects Tuesday to the more than 21,...

China`s future leader a WWII movie buff: WikiLeaks

China`s presumed future president is a big fan of Hollywood movies on World War II, according to a ...

Unexploded WWII bomb defused on new NATO HQ site

NATO`s new home will be situated across the street from its current offices.

Japan witnessing hottest August since WWII

This month will likely be the hottest August that Japan has experienced since 1946.

Australia headed for first hung parliament since WWII

Australia appeared headed for a hung parliament for the first time in 70 years.

Japan’s PM shuns shrine, apologises at WWII ceremony

Japan`s new PM Naoto Kan apologises for the suffering World War II caused.

Russia hands over to Japan remains of 4 WWII soldiers

Russia has handed over to Japan the remains of four Japanese soldiers who died on the Far-Eastern is...

Churchill refined his speech to lift its nation morale in WWII

Britain`s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill altered his speeches a number of times before...

Sarkozy in London for 70th anniversary of WWII appeal

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and World War II veterans visited London on Friday to mark the 70th...

Wreck of WWII freighter believed found off Albania

Underwater archaeologists believe they have found the wreck of an Italian merchant ship torpedoed ...

WWII battleground remains found

The location of the largest World War II battlefield has been found in Papua New Guinea.

3 killed trying to disarm WWII-era bomb in Germany

Three experts working to defuse a bomb from World War II were killed when the device exploded, inj...

Russian embassy shows map of 34 Soviet WWII graves on Internet

The Russian embassy in Belgium has presented a map on its website that gives detailed information ab...

`Blank spots` of WWII shouldn`t be used to distort history

"Blank spots" in the history of the Second World War should not be used to create a distorted versio...

Norwegian Nazis asked Hitler for Russian land: WWII docs

Nazi-occupied Norway`s puppet government repeatedly asked Berlin to establish Norwegian territories ...

Iraq, Afghan wars biggest logistical effort since WWII: US

The US military`s drawdown in Iraq and build-up in Afghanistan represents the biggest movement of tr...

Italy orders DNA tests to identify WWII victims

Italy has ordered DNA tests on 12 unidentified victims killed by Nazi troops in one of the deadliest...

Russia, China share equal views on WWII causes, results

Russia and China have the same assessment of the causes of the beginning, events and results of Worl...

Sunken vessel was US WWII submarine; 78 perished

The Navy on Tuesday confirmed the sunken wreckage of a vessel found in the Philippines` Balabac St...

Japan`s WWII sinking of ship illegal: Australia

Japan`s torpedoing of an Australian hospital ship in World War II was illegal and violated fundament...

Scuttled WWII subs found

Japanese submarines scuttled by the US Navy after WWII have been discovered.

Queen Mother and King George `almost got killed during WWII`

Britain`s Queen Elizabeth I and her husband King George VI almost got killed in a German aerial raid...

Putin blames WWII on West`s deal with Hitler

Russia`s PM on Monday condemned Moscow`s 1939 treaty with Berlin carving up Europe, as well as Bri...

Former German Army officer convicted of WWII killings

A 90-year-old former German Army officer was convicted of murder on Tuesday over the killings of I...

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