Tag: WWII

ON THIS DAY: Wannsee Conference on Nazi ‘Final Solution’ (1942)

A meeting that formalised mass murder On January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials gathered at a villa in Berlin for what became known as the...

Blitz survivors remember ‘Victory Christmas’

Eighty years ago, Britain was celebrating its first peacetime Christmas after six long years of war. They called it “Victory Christmas” and for the first...

Ohi Day: Greece’s proudest “No” to tyranny

Every 28 October, Greece, Cyprus, and Greek communities across the world stand united in celebration of Ohi Day - the day a small nation...

ON THIS DAY: First verdicts at Nuremberg (1946)

On 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg delivered its landmark verdicts in the trial of leading Nazi Germany figures — the...

Nazi looted painting recovered in Argentina after 80 years

A long lost Nazi looted painting has been recovered in Argentina, officials have said. The discovery Portrait of a Lady, by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, had...

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On This Day: The sound that made the world “on time” (1924)

First broadcast of the Greenwich Time Signal in 1924 On...

DOJ releases Epstein files as Trump urges nation to move on

Millions of Epstein documents made public Over the past two...

UK recalls infant formula after 36 children fall ill

Infant formula linked to suspected food poisoning Thirty-six infants in...

Xi urges caution over US supplying arms to Taiwan in Trump call

Taiwan raised as top China–US concern China’s President Xi Jinping...
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