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Second world war

  • Tubeway army … Four Figures in a Setting.

    No perky cockneys? How Henry Moore’s sheltering souls puncture our blitz bravado

    On the eve of a general election, the artist’s drawings of Londoners sheltering from Nazi bombs in the Underground come as a sobering yet welcome reminder of British decency
  • Manfred Goldberg sitting in a classroom wearing a virtual reality headset

    Holocaust survivors to use AI to ‘future-proof’ their stories for UK schools

  • Hadas Yaron as Mila and Robin Weigert as Nechuma in We Were the Lucky Ones.

    TV review
    We Were the Lucky Ones review – this Holocaust drama almost leaves the actors panting with exertion

  • The 28th edition of the Duden

    Brief letters
    Ein Wort für a fear of mentioning the war

    Letters: Kriegserwähnungsangst | When nuclear Israel was invaded | Temperature drop | Gwyneth Hughes | George Carnarvon
  • 15th April 1946: German prisoners of war at a camp in England are undergoing re-education to remove their faith in the Nazi creed. At the 'POW University' they are given an insight into the British way of life.

    Prisoners of war were given a warm welcome in Bletchley

  • View from Sutton Bank down towards green countryside

    North Yorkshire landmark has ‘finest view’ – but did it also have a Nazi spy?

  • Orville Allen hugging his great-grandson in March 2024.

    Oldest ever US organ donor believed to be 98-year-old man

    Orville Allen, second world war and Korean war veteran, died on 29 May and his liver was successfully transplanted
  • Survivors of a German bombing raid during the siege of Leningrad in 1942.

    D-day, Rishi Sunak and the eastern front

    Letters: D-day commemorations have failed to mention equally important turning points in the war, says Prof Colin Green. Plus a letter from Ben Summerskill
    • I feel squeamish talking to Germans about the war. Is it a British thing?

      Adrian Chiles
    • Treasure review – Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama

    • Glued to Hitler: what Brecht’s overlooked collages tell us about how fascism takes hold

  • Ian Gribbin

    Reform UK defends candidate over Hitler neutrality comments

    Party’s spokesperson says Ian Gribbin’s comments that Britain should have accepted Nazi offer ‘probably true’
  • Simon Jenkins

    Cut Rishi Sunak some slack – his D-day blunder is hardly the worst thing he’s done

    Simon Jenkins
    The real problem is how past wars are invoked not only to ramp up today’s defence spending, but to agitate for fresh conflict, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • Patrick Duffy seated in an armchair with a small dog sitting alongside, which looks to be a black West Highland terrier

    ‘I’m blessed. I’m still here’: ex-MP Patrick Duffy, 103, publishes memoirs

    Oldest surviving MP can clearly recall the 1926 general strike, part of his long and immensely eventful life
  • Conscientious objector Peter Hathorn in Cape Town, South Africa, sitting in front of a white sheet hanging on a frame

    ‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve in the army

  • Silhouette of an armoured vehicle and soldiers in a field at sunset

    ‘We’re in 1938 now’: Putin’s war in Ukraine and lessons from history

  • A D-Day veteran stands to watch a fly-past by the Royal Air Force aerobatics team, "The Red Arrows" as they pass over a D-Day 80th anniversary concert in Portsmouth.

    D-day 80th anniversary comes at time of conflict and growing carelessness

  • International commemorative ceremony for 80th anniversary of D-Day<br>epa11393781 France's President Emmanuel Macron (R), US President Joe Biden (2-R), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (2-L) and Czech President Petr Pavel (L) attend the commemorative ceremony with dozens of heads of States and more than 200 veterans for the 80th anniversary of D-Day landings in Normandy at Omaha Beach, Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, France, 06 June 2024. More than 160.000 Western allied troops landed on beaches in Normandy on 6 June 1944 launching the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II. EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

    Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine

  • Crowd of British veterans huddle together to watch a ceremony

    ‘Eternal debt’: 200 surviving veterans are focus of this year’s D-day

  • Arthur Oborne speaking into a microphone at the memorial with a military officer standing beside him

    ‘I have never taken his sacrifice for granted’: D-day veterans honour comrades in Normandy

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