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# world-war-2 - Sunday 30 December, 2018
French Resistance hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children during WW2 dies aged 108
Georges Loinger was himself imprisoned during the war but escaped.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 5 September, 2018
A mine from World War II has been brought ashore in Kinsale
A bomb disposal team is on its way to the harbour.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 13 March, 2018
'The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' has died before he could be jailed
Oskar Groening was found guilty in 2015 of being an accessory to murder.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
World War II aircraft carrier found after 76 years
The wreckage was found over 800km off the eastern coast of Australia.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 4 February, 2018
New documentary reveals secrets about a Swiss doctor dubbed 'one of the worst Nazi figures'
SS doctor August Hirt tortured and mutilated jews in France.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 28 October, 2017
Holocaust survivor plants Irish oak tree at Russborough House
The Irish oak tree was planted to remember the 1.5 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 19 August, 2017
IRA leader Seán Russell and the story of Dublin's most controversial statue
Russell was an IRA chief of staff who died on a German u-boat in 1940.
# world-war-2 - Friday 11 August, 2017
The Holocaust survivor who became the world's oldest man has died aged 113
Yisrael Kristal survived Auschwitz and lived out his life in Israel.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 6 August, 2017
On this day in 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
An event to remember the victims will take place in Dublin today.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 16 July, 2017
Japan protests against bid to recognise Korean women forced into brothels
Japanese troops forced thousands of women to work in brothels during World War II.
# world-war-2 - Monday 10 July, 2017
Holocaust survivors more at risk of developing cancer
Researchers studied over 150,000 people for more than 45 years.
# world-war-2 - Monday 30 January, 2017
White House says allegations of 'Holocaust denial' are 'pathetic'
Spokesperson Sean Spicer says the media is ‘nitpicking’
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Hitler's Mein Kampf sells 85,000 copies in Germany
It was initially planned to print only 4,000 copies of the Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto, but production was boosted after intense demand.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 29 October, 2016
Replica of bunker where Hitler spent his final days goes on display in Berlin
The project hasn’t been universally welcomed.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 2 October, 2016
A virtual reality reconstruction of Auschwitz is helping to try Nazi criminals
The headsets help prosecutors see if those accused could have seen what was happening.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 24 September, 2016
Empty tea cups: Living without tea in WWII Ireland
If you think you’re gasping for a cuppa at the end of a long day, you should have seen the country in 1941…
# world-war-2 - Thursday 4 August, 2016
WW2 diaries: The lives, obsessions and mistresses of the man who planned the Holocaust
Heinrich Himmler’s wartime diaries have been discovered.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 29 May, 2016
One of Adolf Hitler's message machines was found in a shed in England
The Lorenz machine sold on eBay for £10.
# world-war-2 - Friday 18 March, 2016
Adolf Hitler's own copy of Mein Kampf has just sold at auction
The book from his Munich apartment sold for more than €18,000.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 28 February, 2016
'A fully-fledged masochist': Inside the CIA's psychological profile of Adolf Hitler
The report was commissioned in 1943.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 24 January, 2016
This former fascist concentration camp is being turned into a luxury holiday resort
Mamula island is situated in Kotor Bay in Montenegro.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 23 January, 2016
After 70 years apart, D-Day veteran and wartime sweetheart to reunite
10,000 miles and seven decades are not enough to keep them away from each other, apparently.
# world-war-2 - Saturday 2 January, 2016
How a notorious Nazi war criminal was banned from his picturesque Waterford hideaway
Rumours about looted art in the Kilmacthomas estate persisted for years.
# world-war-2 - Sunday 27 December, 2015
World War II sex slaves and their fight for justice
There’s continued tension between Japan and South Korea over the ‘comfort women’.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
No treasure found in dig for legendary gold-filled Nazi train
Rumours persist that the train is buried in an underground tunnel.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 10 November, 2015
Irish World War II veteran awarded France's highest military honour
The 98 year old dedicated the award to all the Irish soldiers who fought in the war, saying they remain in his memory to this day.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 23 June, 2015
'They had legs ripped off ... faces missing': An eye witness recalls the horror of Okinawa
“We simply had no idea what to do. I was 17. We all thought we would be back at school in a week.”
# world-war-2 - Saturday 9 May, 2015
The Red Army made a comeback today to celebrate defeating the Nazis
The Russian capital saw a massive WW2 parade despite a western boycott.
# world-war-2 - Friday 8 May, 2015
It's 70 years since World War II ended in Europe
Victory in Europe (VE) Day was declared after Germany’s unconditional surrender in Berlin on 8 May, 1945.
# world-war-2 - Thursday 30 April, 2015
Today marks 70 years since this happened
But Hitler’s Austrian birthplace still can’t deal with his legacy
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 31 March, 2015
This Nazi-hunting husband/wife team even tried to kidnap an SS officer
Serge and Beath Klarsfeld hunted down Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.
# world-war-2 - Friday 16 January, 2015
This is Hitler's old house ... and the Austrian government wants it
The Nazi leader spent his early childhood in the building.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 9 December, 2014
Court won't prosecute 89 year old over worst Nazi atrocity on French soil
There was not enough evidence to charge the man, a former member of the SS.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 29 October, 2014
'British Schindler' honoured for saving hundreds of children from Nazi death camps
Sir Nicholas Winton brought 669 Czech children to safety in 1939.
# world-war-2 - Wednesday 17 September, 2014
93-year-old former Auschwitz guard charged with 300,000 crimes
Oskar Groening is accused of managing money and property stolen from victims.
# world-war-2 - Monday 9 June, 2014
Someone stole this 92-year-old war veteran's military medals on the D-Day anniversary
Police in London say the suspected burglar had an Irish accent.
# world-war-2 - Friday 6 June, 2014
The 9 at 9: Friday
Good morning! Here are the nine stories you need to know this morning as we edge closer to the weekend.
# world-war-2 - Monday 5 May, 2014
Government to help launch a Holocaust education project for children
The Crocus Project is is run by the Holocaust Education Trust Ireland (HETI) and aims to teach children about the consequences of discrimination.
# world-war-2 - Tuesday 25 February, 2014
Canadian soldier's remains found in German war cemetery after 14 year search
Lawrence S. Gordon’s remains were identified using dental records, and will now be returned to his hometown.
# world-war-2 - Friday 21 February, 2014
Three suspected Auschwitz guards --- aged 88, 92 and 94 --- arrested in Germany
The men have undergone medical tests, and a judge confirmed their fitness to be detained in a prison hospital.
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Poll: Do you think Phoenix Park's gates should be mostly closed to traffic?
MOST OF THE Phoenix Park’s gates were closed off to traffic at the height of the pandemic, but are being reopened now for cars to pass through.
This has been described as “incredibly regressive” by Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan, who argued that it should be used as a park, and in a few months it will be back to “car city”.
Meanwhile, Minister of State for the Office of Public Works, Patrick O’Donovan said that the volume of traffic has “gone up a lot” in the adjoining areas. “Whether we like it or not, for an awful lot of people it’s a commuter route,” he said on RTÉ Radio One.
So what do you think: should the Phoenix Park be mostly closed off to traffic from now on?
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