second World War

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

Worldview: Russia’s deeply ingrained tradition of violence against its neighbours and its own citizens led inexorably to the invasion of Ukraine, Sergei Medvedev argues

This is an inviting, eclectic book, loosely based on 12 shipwrecks, ranging from a Bronze Age wreck to a ship sunk during the Battle of the Atlantic

Television: You can feel the high production values in this Apple TV series, but the results are ultimately flawed

In the News podcast: Donald Clarke on The Zone of Interest

Lyndsey Stonebridge’s biography of the US political theorist illuminates the titanic forces of love and evil which animate civilisation - be it the second World War or now. It is timely and magisterial

In the News podcast: Former pupils of St Conleth’s seek apology over the vicious methods of their French teacher, ex-SS officer Louis Feutren

Unthinkable: Søren Kierkegaard would hate this listicle. Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt might approve

The British government does not emerge well from this retelling Nicholas Winton’s scheme to save the lives of hundreds of children

Peace Park, which remembers Irishmen who died in first World War, was made a UNESCO world heritage site last month

Thinking Anew: The horrors of the Hamas assault on Israel, and now of the bombing of Gaza, should not blind us to hope

Story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, who died 60 years ago today, is a moral atlas of borders and boundaries. His is a courageous voice from beyond time and hope

Yazidi survivor and Jewish speaker were to give an ‘eye witness’ talk based on them surviving two separate genocides

Speaking about the teacher's sadistic violence has been as hard as climbing a Himalayan peak

Then powerful justice official Peter Berry received an appeal to give refuge to Jews who wanted to flee Nazi Germany

Architect Róisín Heneghan hopes design will help ‘future generations understand and experience this space’

The Berlin-born actor Agnes Bernelle, who married into the Leslies of Monaghan, was reunited with an unusual book lost during the second World War not long before her death

Uki Goñi says St Conleth’s has not gone far enough in addressing the presence of a former SS officer

Oppenheimer film resurrects question – should atomic bombs have been developed and used?

Louis Feutren, an SS officer and Nazi collaborator in France, taught at fee-paying school for almost 30 years

Louis Feutren, a Breton nationalist and SS officer, taught French at St Conleth’s College for almost three decades

Louis Feutren taught French at St Conleth’s College in Ballsbridge for almost 30 years, during which he physically assaulted pupils

The New Zealand author on her latest novel, Sisters Under the Rising Sun, and publishing a global best-selling debut at the age of 65

A Ukrainian steel factory uses an ancient trick of war to fool the enemy