Second world war
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Under rules of US-managed and French-financed fund victims transported by French rail during Holocaust and their descendants entitled to up to $100k
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Free tickets sold with knowledge of officials and memorial poorly maintained says report comes just before annual rite honoring 2,400 servicemen killed in 1941
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Measure heads to Obama’s desk as Republicans call on White House to explain how Nazis received benefits
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Erich Maria Remarque’s unfinished novel The Promised Land gets English translation 85 years after anti-war classic
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Government to redeem war loan bond issued by Chamberlain in 1932, saving the taxpayer £15m in interest payments
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Bandsman who played for many royal occasions and West End shows, and taught woodwind at Eton
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Brunner, who was born in 1912 and topped most-wanted lists for his role in the Holocaust, said to have died four years ago in Damascus
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Veteran of Dunkirk and Normandy landings who devised outdoor schemes for young people
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Though epic and ambitious, Jolie’s second outing as a director fails to do justice to the rousing real-life story of Louis Zamperini, writes Andrew Pulver
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When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith reveal how Churchill’s shameful decision to turn on the partisans who had fought on our side in the war sowed the seeds for the rise of the far right in Greece today
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Manolis Glezos crept through sewers to plant dynamite beneath British HQ in Athens. But the order to detonate never came
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Tory party grandee famous for ‘cricket test’ of loyalty suggests migration is preferable from countries on Allied side in WW2
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That's me in the picture That’s me in the picture: Warren Bernard in Wait For Me, Daddy, New Westminster, Canada, 1940
‘The day Dad came home, my grandfather picked me up and took me to the station. That was probably the happiest day in my 10-year-old life’
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Attempts to portray women who were forced to work in brothels as willing prostitutes at odds with mainstream historical opinion
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Christopher Fox’s aunt was executed by the Nazi government – in this fine, Bach-infused work, he recreates her final hours, writes Alfred Hickling
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News: The relatives of Alastair Denniston, the commander at Bletchley Park where Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code, say that the biopic film makes an ‘unwarranted sideswipe’ at him
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Letters: There appears to be no one willing to assist with funding for construction of a new war memorial. Our village has no memorial and dearly wishes to have one
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Pippa Doyle parachuted into France during the second world war as a 21-year-old to help the resistance against Nazi Germany
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Kunstmuseum Bern chief emphasises bequest from Cornelius Gurlitt excludes works suspected of having been looted
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Jonathan Jones: Hated by the Nazis for their freedom and humanity, the paintings are neither poisoned gifts nor spoils of war but vital works of art
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... The veteran campaigner for the poor and the NHS had plenty to say about the brutal Great Depression, the horror of postwar Hamburg – and the advice he gave Ed Miliband
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Letters: Alan Turing was certainly not the only golden pebble on the Bletchley beach
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Other lives: Trained ballerina, and fluent German-speaker who worked for Bletchley Park
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Secret operation by Louvre staff on eve of war is revealed in new documentary on forgotten hero Jacques Jaujard
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Triumph, tragedy, inspiration, innovation and despair all feature in a list of the most momentous events of the past eight decades, chosen by thousands of people around the globe
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Letters: Their efforts would, however, have been for nought had it not been for the many talented linguists
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Pawel Pawlikowski never learned the rules of film-making and says he’s a film financier’s nightmare – here he explains how he battled industry conventions, as well as Poland’s ‘winter of the century’, to make his award-winning drama
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The wartime codebreaker and computing genius was pursued for homosexuality, but nobody – until film-makers came along – accused him of being a traitor, writes Alex von Tunzelmann
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Letters: No mention of the genius of Tommy Flowers. No mention of the Lorenz cipher. And nothing about HMS Bulldog
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A forthcoming project sheds light on the parallels between Hans Frank, a key player in the Holocaust, and Hersch Lauterpacht, one of the prosecution team at his trial, writes Ed Vulliamy
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The gripping tale of an encounter on the eve of the Allied liberation of Paris suffers in the transition from stage to screen, says Mark Kermode
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Second world war espionage film The Imitation Game is expected to boost interest in Bletchley Park and GCHQ, writes Vanessa Thorpe
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Analysis How did the Enigma machine work?
On the day The Imitation Game hits cinemas, a look at how Allied codebreakers untangled the Enigma -
The Imitation Game explores mathematical genius’s codebreaking work and run-in with the law over his sexual activities
The moral philosopher Is the Gurlitt collection so precious we forget its dubious heritage?