Saturday, 27 July , 2024

WWII

Polish government demands war reparations from Germany

By Clara Weiss 22 August 2017 The Polish government of the Law and Justice party (PiS) announced earlier this month that it would demand...

Kiev names street after Nazi collaborator

Kiev’s city council has renamed one of the city’s major streets after Roman Shukhevich, a Ukrainian nationalist and Nazi officer who was commander of...

History Wars – Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania revise the meaning of...

On Thursday, MPs from the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, approved the 'Declaration of Remembrance and Solidarity' of the parliaments of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, which put the blame for the events of the Second World War squarely on the Soviet Union.

Zweiter Weltkrieg: Wie Griechenland von Deutschland 269 Milliarden Euro einklagen könnte

Die zuletzt abgeflaute Debatte um griechische NS-Reparationsforderungen über 278,7 Milliarden Euro an Deutschland wird neu angefacht. Nach zweieinhalb Jahren Arbeit hat ein griechischer Parlamentsausschuss nun einen Bericht vorgelegt, der den Anspruch auf Milliardenzahlungen untermauert.

75 years since Operation Barbarossa – Revisions…

On 22nd June it will have been 75 years since the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the Hitlerian invasion of the Soviet Union, the war of extermination, pillage and colonization which was to cost the lives of between 24 and 29 million human beings (according to recent estimates)