US deports 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to Germany
His deportation was first ordered by an immigration judge last year.
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His deportation was first ordered by an immigration judge last year.
The 500-kilogramme British bomb was found on a construction site in Germany’s financial capital on Thursday.
A local group discovered the image, after searching based on an old aerial photo.
D-Day is seen by many as one of the great symbols of transatlantic cooperation.
Amy Bracken looks at the bombing of Campile on 26 August 1940, one of the less-remembered bombings of Éire during the Second World War.
The year-long exhibition will take place in Monaghan.
To date, Poland has not made an official demand.
The ordnance was discovered in King George V Dock, close to the runway of London’s most central airport.
The measure must still pass the Senate before being signed by the president.
The works are just a small fraction of the pieces discovered in 2012 in possession of his son Cornelius Gurlitt.
The bomb has since been disposed of and the bridges reopened.
He and President Obama laid wreathes at the site of the attack.
One million European Jews died between 1940 and 1945 at the Auschwitz camp in the southern city of Oswiecim.
Forgotten war machines.
The country’s central bank was forced to loan a massive sum to the Third Reich.
The award is France’s highest military honour.
Tributes were paid to Patrick Gillen yesterday in Cork.
There was not enough evidence to charge the man, a former member of the SS.
The one-time Bridget Hitler was born and raised in Dublin.
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The “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” nuclear bombs killed tens of thousands of people.
“I personally think there shouldn’t be any atomic bombs in the world — I’d like to see them all abolished.”
Anne Frank never lived to tell her tale but we can honour her memory, and that of all the murdered, by challenging anti-Semitism where we find it.
Workers at a Bangkok scrap facility believed the device had been made safe.
Lawrence S. Gordon’s remains were identified using dental records, and will now be returned to his hometown.
Alice Herz-Sommer died in London on Sunday after a short illness.
The accident happened in Euskirchen, not far from former capital Bonn in western Germany.
The RTE programme reveals first hand accounts from the men who fought against the Germans in the Second World War.
The bomb was discovered by experts searched for unexploded Allied ordnance.
Up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere were forcibly drafted into brothels catering to the Japanese military in territories occupied by Japan during WWII.
The controversial mayor claimed that the forced prostitution of approximately 200,000 women during World War II was necessary to “maintain discipline” in the ranks.
The Minister for Justice said that the Irish who fought with the Allies during WWII had “fought against Nazi tyranny”.
Today Russia marks the 70th anniversary of a brutal battle in which the Red Army defeated Nazi forces and changed the course of World War II.
The two countries sought to paper-over tensions from the euro crisis when their leaders kicked off events marking 50 years of post-war reconciliation.
Someone better check for tunnel digging antics at Sandy Park this Saturday.
The Titanic disaster, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty: 2012 has been a big year for commemorations. Here’s your guide to the bigger commemorations held this year.
Thousands of Defence Forces personnel who were persecuted by the Irish government for fighting with the Allies in World War II will receive a formal pardon in the new year.
The newly released files also uncover attempts to turn Ireland into a fascist state, in addition to Britain’s wartime recruitment within the 26 counties.
Fund administrators and German officials say payments to Holocaust survivors are needed “more than ever” as they enter their final years.
This one’s from World War II and England’s ‘war at home’ effort. The swastikas give it away somewhat.