The World Wars

Last emperor of China’s watch sells for record $6.2m at auction
The Patek Philippe Ref 96 Quantieme Lune once belonged to the last emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty Aisin-Gioro Puyi.
Published On 24 May 2023
Explorers find WWII wreck on which nearly 1,000 Australians died
Japan’s SS Montevideo Maru was sunk in 1942 by a US submarine unaware that more than 1,000 prisoners of war were onboard.
Published On 22 Apr 2023
Russian ‘megalomania’ in Ukraine war cited at death camp memorial
The Auschwitz camp memorial director equated Nazi crimes of World War II with Russian forces now in Ukraine.
Published On 28 Jan 2023
S Korea mulls plan to resolve row over Japan’s forced labour
Some victims of forced labour under the Japanese during World War II denounced the plan as ‘humiliating’.
Published On 12 Jan 2023

Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty of complicity in mass killings at WWII concentration camp.

As water levels reached historically low levels across Europe in 2022, history emerged from its depths.

The formal demand comes despite Germany saying all financial claims linked to the war had been settled.

The leader of Poland’s governing party says the official demand for the reparations will be submitted to Germany.

Putin did not mention Ukraine by name, gave no assessment of progress in the war, or say how long it will last.

The C-46 transport aircraft was found in Himalayas following treacherous search that led to the deaths of three guides.

Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.

Irmgard Furchner is accused of having contributed to the murder of 11,412 people at the Stutthof concentration camp.

Josef Schuetz is accused of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

A filmmaker retraces the childhood odyssey of his Polish grandmother who became a refugee in Africa during World War II.

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