World War II

75 years later, 1 mn Japanese war dead still missing
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75 years later, 1 mn Japanese war dead still missing

TOKYO (AP) — Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than one million Japanese war dead are…
Japan faces World War Two anniversary in shadow of coronavirus
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Japan faces World War Two anniversary in shadow of coronavirus

TOKYO (Reuters) – In a 4 1/2-minute radio speech on Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in World…
Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing
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Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with…
Urgency to bear witness grows for last Hiroshima victims
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Urgency to bear witness grows for last Hiroshima victims

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — For nearly 70 years, until he turned 85, Lee Jong-keun hid his past as an atomic…
Born in a concentration camp: the Holocaust’s youngest survivors
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Born in a concentration camp: the Holocaust’s youngest survivors

Holocaust survivor Florence Schulmann has always worried that if she went into schools to recount her experience, it would sound…
Auschwitz online: raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age
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Auschwitz online: raising Holocaust awareness in the digital age

Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the Auschwitz Museum, posts several photos of victims of the former…
Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WW II, says UN chief
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Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WW II, says UN chief

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern…
Tokyo 1940: The Games that became the ‘Missing Olympics’
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Tokyo 1940: The Games that became the ‘Missing Olympics’

Fears are growing that this year’s Olympics may be postponed or axed because of the coronavirus pandemic but Japan has…
German far right reopens wounds of Dresden bombing
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German far right reopens wounds of Dresden bombing

Germany marks 75 years since the destruction of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, an anniversary seized upon by…
Auschwitz survivors to sound alarm 75 years after liberation
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Auschwitz survivors to sound alarm 75 years after liberation

Seventy-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a dwindling number of elderly Holocaust survivors gathered at the former German Nazi…
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