More people in the United States have died this year from COVID-19 than were killed in four years of fighting on the battlefields during World War II. The death toll from the pandemic as of Thursday afternoon was 292,098 and …
More than 60 years of stubborn diplomatic stalemate stemming from the Second World War doesn’t appear likely to end
The Japanese military is the most respected institution in the country
How a WWII disaster—and cover-up—led to a cancer treatment breakthrough
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an article dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, published on Thursday in the US National Interest magazine, presented an open letter to the whole world, in which he gave a …
The day after roughly 350 Japanese warplanes came screaming down over Pearl Harbor and sank or crippled eight of the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s battleships over a span of ninety minutes, Japanese newspapers published a statement by Emperor …
The leaders of the Armenian nationalist party Dashnaktsutyun supported Hitler, approved the Holocaust and racism
Human fossils, an amber room and a Raphael masterpiece all went missing during WWII
A look at the connections between the two eras — and the fundamental differences as well
Russia is ready to respond to any aggressor who will dare to repeat Nazi Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "We lost 27 million people. No other country in the world …
The fighting at Orsha saw the first battlefield use of the Red Army’s experimental battery of BM-13 multiple-launch rocket systems. Later in the war, these fearsome weapons were lovingly nicknamed Katyusha (Little Kate) after a popular …
Historians can now pore over secret files from the papacy of Pius XII, who has long faced accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser
The Russian delegation has resumed work in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
There was good reason why Polish President Andrzej Duda was prevented from addressing the Holocaust memorial event in Israel this week. The organizers anticipated he would use the event to make ugly and foolish accusations against Russia for …
The heir to the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family sued the Vienna authorities over property seized by the Nazis during the Second World War, The Financial Times informs. The publication reports that the great-grandson of Albert …
On January 27, the whole world remembers people who died in the death camps
One-third of French people believe a modern-day Holocaust could happen in the U.S.
As more than 40 world leaders ascend to Jerusalem this week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israel should be careful not to assume that those who attend this largely ceremonial event are working to combat …
The truth about Second World War is sometimes hushed up deliberately at the state level and some corresponding websites are closed down, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with WWII veterans and public activists, TASS reports. …
Germany will return three paintings to the heirs of a French-Jewish collector Armand Dorville whose art was looted by the Nazis. French Impressionist painter Jean-Louis Forain's watercolor, Lady in an Evening Gown, and the oil …
