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Greeks who survived Holocaust as children speak out after decades of silence

Some 83% of Jews in Greece, about 59,000 people, were murdered by Nazis but their story is little known

Stalin purges added to vast human cost of WWII

Between 41-42 Stalin uprooted ethnic minorities, such as Greeks, Finns etc., because he suspected them of being “potential Nazi collaborators”

Russia launches criminal investigation after Prague removes Soviet military statue

The statue to Marshal Ivan Konev is reviled by some in Prague as a symbol of the decades of Communist rule that followed the war

Vatican sees intense interest in opening of WWII-era Pope Pius XII archive

“The church has no reason to fear history”

Jewish-German pensioner who turned 101 “used to live next door to Hitler” during rise of Nazi party

She would sometimes see Hitler being rushed into the building by SS guards

Remains of two sailors killed in Pearl Harbor identified

In recent years, many Pearl Harbor victims have been accounted for, thanks to advancements in DNA and dental testing

Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary

Russia claims that historical memory in the West has begun to focus more on the Soviet role in triggering the war and less on its role in defeating Germany

Manolis Glezos is in intensive care

His condition is critical

Forgotten Genocide: How a Quarter of Europe’s Roma were murdered by the Nazis, then erased from History

Documents that have surfaced in an exhibition in London show how the world turned its back on half a million Roma victims of Hitler’s Holocaust

Former SS guard goes on trial over 5.230 murders in what could be last ever Nazi prosecution of its kind

East of Danzig in Poland, the concentration camp of Stutthof was built in 1939 and was used as the main collection point for Poles removed from the city

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