Second World War

By upholding international law, we ensure the lessons of the second World War endure. It is incumbent on us to call out violations wherever these occur and to promote accountability

Monday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

Joe Veselsky (106) made his mark on Ireland after his parents and brother died in Auschwitz

Soviet history specialist covers the repatriation and resettlement of millions after second World War

Described as ‘illiteracy’s most famous product’, what Robertson lacked in skill he made up for in tenacity under the cloud of Nazi occupation

Future president felt Ireland was ‘not too badly off’ and was apathetic towards partition

The proud, stubborn and courageous Monaghan man chose a path which led to his premature death

Patrick Cockburn remains detached but proud of father’s career as determined, ruthless revolutionary

Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play

Once the cornerstone of the country’s remembrance culture, the slogan’s meaning has become increasingly blurred

Francesco Lotoro’s research is unclear and ignores how music-making in the Nazi camps was sometimes a form of torture

Temporary capital during wartime engaged American military aviation advice and training for the Flying Tigers to fend off aerial bombing by the Japanese

Just before the second World War broke out, in 1938 the New Industries (Development) Act sought to lure employers to the North. It helped some escape the evil of the Nazis

Hundreds of volunteers have helped unearth artefacts at site in St Anne’s Park

Sunil Amrith brilliantly portrays how our dominance over nature has been self-serving and destructive, a corrosive colonisation of Earth for which he doubts there is a mass global solution

Prime minister Donald Tusk says lessons of the past, and present Russian aggression, underline importance of strong defence

The far-right Alternative for Germany party’s Björn Höcke wants a ‘180-degree shift’ in the country’s view of its past and condemns the postwar ‘guilt cult’

Erfurt in Thuringia is a microcosm of a post-factual right-wing political landscape in which emotion is key to unlocking popular support

Irmgard Furchner worked in Stutthof concentration camp office from June 1943 to April 1945 aged 18 and 19

Beijing claims maritime incidents caused by dangerous actions of Philippines coast guard vessels in contested waters of South China Sea

Team behind memorial to Nazi-era prostitutes close to Reeperbahn excluded area’s sex workers from its planning and drew on incorrect information, it is claimed

UCC’s Andy Bielenberg says family are ‘very proud’ of Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg for part in plot

Historians Margaret MacMillan and Roy Foster see troubling parallels between the events of today and those of a century ago

A new train tunnel running under the memorial has been described as ‘macabre’ given how many Sinti and Roma were deported by rail to their deaths

Calls for historical commemoration projects and more compensation for wartime survivors from Germany for suffering it inflicted

Melanie Müller accused of gesture during concert in Leipzig

July 28th-August 2nd: From the new series of Interview with the Vampier to testimony from the last of Japan’s atomic bomb surivors

Yad Vashem has just opened a new facility exhibiting a vast collection of Holocaust-era items, each one linked to an individual victim or survivor

Max Hastings offers a thrilling account of a daring raid to steal German radar technology in 1942

There is no sense of catharsis in documentary featuring son of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss

July 7th-12th: From new Instanbul-set crime crama The Turkish Detective to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s new reality

Podcast review: The seaborne invasion, involving more than 130,000 troops, created a path to victory in Europe during the second World War

Enthralling analyses of history dig into how human traits of violence and co-operation interact and evolve to sustain cultures of warfare

Perhaps not overly mindful of the horrors that would await them, many Irish people went in search of liberation, adventure or experiences unavailable at home

From rugby stars to future priests and economic migrants to Troubles negotiators, these are their stories

Ceremonies likely to be the among the last honouring second World War veterans, many aged 100 or more, in their presence

Tobias Buck digs into how Germany dragged its feet on denazification and prosecutions for decades after war

Dudley Clarke was best known as British intelligence chief who devised the SAS but lesser known is his role advising De Valera’s government on how to fend off a feared German invasion

Despite the pursuit of hard fact, the nature of reality is illuminated by Eastern thought as much as it is by atomic theory