From Brussels to Warsaw, troubled Europe reckons with Trump โ and itself
The next few months will be pivotal for the Atlantic alliance. A fragmented Continent will struggle to meet the moment.
Second world war
Court rules former Nazi camp guard, 100, can face trial in Germany
Gregor Formanek is charged with aiding and abetting 3,322 murders at the Sachsenhausen concentration campGerman authorities are pressing for a 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to face trial almost 80 years after the end of the second w…
The Commander review โ true story of patriotic heroism tries to avoid being political football
The patriotic story of an Italian submarine commander who disobeyed orders from fascist leaders and rescued enemy sailors after sinking their shipHere is a stolid second world war drama, directed by Edoardo de Angelis, taken from a patriotic true story…
Security guarantees vital if Ukraine is to rebuild economy, says steel CEO
Metinvest boss says there is a high degree of uncertainty over Trumpโs plan to negotiate with RussiaBusiness live โ latest updatesRussia-Ukraine war โ latest news updatesSecurity guarantees will be key to Ukraine healing its shattered economy if Donald…
Madeleine Riffaud obituary
Member of the French resistance during the second world war arrested and tortured for her dramatic act of revoltOn a bright Sunday morning in occupied Paris, 23 July 1943, a German soldier was standing at the Pont de Solfรฉrino, watching the river go by…
Freedom by Angela Merkel review โ her lips are sealed
The ex-German chancellorโs memoir details the myriad issues she faced, from the 2008 financial crash to Covid-19, but studiously avoids much in the way of insights and analysis Ever since the end of the second world war, when Germans somewhat belatedly…
Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us | Rachel Shabi
Assumptions were made about clashes between Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Amsterdam locals โ and the far right took advantageIn the aftermath of a sudden eruption of violence or unrest, there is often a brief, vital window when the narrative about what act…
Gulag History Museum in Moscow temporarily closed โfor safety reasonsโ
Kremlin critics fear move is part of Russiaโs efforts to whitewash Soviet past and shut independent cultural institutionsMoscowโs award-winning Gulag History Museum announced its surprise closure on Thursday, a move critics attribute to the Kremlinโs e…
Starmer to join Macron on Armistice Day in Paris to show European solidarity
British and French leaders will discuss Ukraine and defence amid fears for future of Nato after Trumpโs re-electionKeir Starmer will join Emmanual Macron in Paris for the French Armistice Day service in a pointed show of European solidarity days after …
Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessalonikiโs Holocaust museum is finally set to open
Germany is among donors committing millions to the long-awaited project, to be completed in 2026, which will tell story of those who perishedFew places are more representative of the horrors that befell Greece during Nazi occupation than the old railwa…
Heartache over Austriaโs move towards the far right | Letters
Caroline Fiedler, Timothy Jokl and Andrew Winter Done on the rise of the far-right Austrian Freedom party and its implications for the countryOwen Jones rightly identifies the Austrian Freedom party (FPร) as having an unashamedly dangerous Nazi pedigre…
Families seek to clear names of men who refused to fight for former Dutch colony
Conscientious objectors refused to take part in military campaign against Indonesian independence in 1940sFamilies of 20 men who were jailed for refusing to fight to preserve the former Dutch colony in Indonesia have formally asked for their names to b…
How Giorgia Meloni became Europeโs favourite far-right leader โ podcast
Sheโs the far-right prime minister with whom leaders across Europe seem to love being photographed. Whatโs her appeal and what does she really want? With Alexander StilleFrom Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, every European leader seems keen to have…
The EU needs Britain as much as Britain needs it. Where is Starmerโs solidarity? | William Keegan
Economic problems and the far right threaten the whole of Europe. Labourโs isolationist approach must changeโThere ought to be not only a national esprit de corps, but a European esprit de corps.โThis plea by the renowned barrister and lord chancellor …
Hospitals evacuated in Cologne after discovery of second world war bomb
1,000kg US ordnance to be defused at building site after complex evacuation that also included thousands of homesAuthorities in the German city of Cologne have evacuated three hospitals and thousands of homes after the discovery of an unexploded second…
Poland and Ukraineโs bloody past overshadows their anti-Russia alliance
Thousands died in wartime massacres and Warsaw wants Kyiv to admit responsibility and allow for exhumations and reburial of the victims.
The Conservative Party conference was weirdly upbeat
The champagne was flowing โ but are the Tories in a state of collective denial?
The Guardian view on Austriaโs election: yet another wake-up call | Editorial
The Freedom partyโs first ever victory is the latest in a string of far-right triumphs in Europe. Business as usual is not a credible mainstream responseThe sequence has become dismally familiar. Piling up votes in provincial and rural areas at the exp…
Austrian parties to begin talks on forming government after far-right win
Exit polls show Freedom partyโs election gains came thanks to strong support among younger votersEurope live โ latest updatesAustriaโs main parties are preparing to begin tense wrangling to form a government amid warnings about the countryโs democracy …
The Guardian view on Olaf Scholzโs struggling coalition: running out of time | Editorial
A pyrrhic victory for social democrats in the latest state election offers scant consolation. The German far right continues to strengthenThe name of Germanyโs beleaguered chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was not on the ballot on Sunday, as his home state of B…
Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UKโs first Holocaust memorial
Work of German-Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis, who fled Nazis in 1930s, is subject of exhibition in LondonThe work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UKโs first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition…
Parachute drop near Arnhem marks 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Airborne units from eight Nato nations participate in commemoration of ill-fated second world war manoeuvreEighty years after thousands of allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a daring military offensive, their modern…
Dutch row over which victims of Nazis get โstumbling stoneโ plaques
Commemorations of 45 people โexperimentallyโ gassed reveal dark moments in the Netherlandsโ historyThey call them stumbling stones โ little brass plaques in the pavement marking addresses where Holocaust victims once lived.As the Netherlands marks 80 y…
Vermiglio review โ secrets and lies in idyllic Italian village in the shadow of war
Maura Delperoโs beautifully-made drama explores the complex dynamics of a sprawling family near the wartime border with GermanyMaura Delperoโs new film was a richly deserving winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Venice film festival this year and will…
Grenfell Tower report: UK government was โcomplacent and dismissiveโ before deadly blaze
Report slams ‘decades of failure’ in the run-up to the 2017 blaze that killed 72 people.
Quarrel over WWII massacre rekindles bad blood between Poland and Ukraine
The Volhynia massacre, in which the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ethnically cleansed Poles in what is now eastern Ukraine during the Second World War, has come to haunt Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Czech street named after British man who saved Jewish children from Nazis
Nicholas Wintonโs โKinderโ return to Prague to honour man who organised rescue of 669 childrenAt the age of seven, Alexandra Pfeifer was taken by her father and two brothers to Prague railway station, and told she was going on holiday. โI didnโt know w…
Netanyahu blasts โshamefulโ UK ban on Israel arms exports
Israeli PM vows: โWith or without British arms, Israel will win this war and secure our common future.โ
โA punch to the countryโ: German Jewish groups and minorities aghast at AfD victory
Holocaust survivors shocked at extent of support for far-right party while people of colour fear for their safetyAs the decades passed, the group โ made up of those who had survived the unthinkable horrors of the Holocaust โ had slowly begun to rebuild…
Boris Johnson accuses UK Labour of โabandoning Israelโ
Former prime minister asks if the British government “want Hamas to win” after it partially suspends arms sales to Israel.
Thereโs only one way to keep Germanyโs far-right AfD at bay. Address the concerns it exploits | Katja Hoyer
There are good reasons to place a political firewall around the extremists. But mainstream parties must also address the electorateโs loss of trustโWeโre all waiting with bated breath. This is a fateful election,โ a friend from Leipzig told me on Sunda…
Tuesday briefing: Why the far rightโs success in German state elections canโt be written off as a local phenomenon any more
In todayโs newsletter: Alternative fรผr Deutschland have deployed Nazi rhetoric throughout their rise โ and they are pulling the mainstream further to the rightโข Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. For the first time since …
German far-right party AfD poised for state election victory in east
Alternative fรผr Deutschland leader speaks of โhistoric successโ of top place in Thuringia and second in SaxonyA far-right party became the biggest force in a German state parliament for the first time since the second world war, exit polls showed on Su…
The trial of Bjรถrn Hรถcke, the โreal bossโ of Germanyโs far right
As leader of the AfDโs most radical faction, he is infamous in Germany and his critics have long accused him of using language that echoes the Nazis. This year, a court put that question to the testBjรถrn Hรถcke, a former history teacher who has become a…
The Guardian view on France ungoverned: a humbled president must learn humility | Editorial
Emmanuel Macronโs refusal to accept a minority left government was a mistake. Having lost the election he needs to give groundThough he made a number of appearances during the Olympics, Emmanuel Macron largely retreated to his holiday residence in…
Film suggests Nazisโ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre
Letter in Leni Riefenstahl archive appears to claim her set instructions led to deaths of Polish Jews, says directorA new documentary on the Nazisโ favourite film-maker and lead propagandist Leni Riefenstahl suggests she was a direct witness to murdero…
Chemical weapons dump found at bottom of Baltic Sea
Several thousands of metric tons of munitions, mainly left over from the Second World War, have been dumped in the sea. While contamination remains limited for the time being, the question of removing them is becoming increasingly pressing.
Russia and Ukraine exchange 115 prisoners of war with help of the UAE
Gulf state facilitates swap deal for Russian soldiers captured during Kursk incursion launched earlier this monthRussia and Ukraine have exchanged 115 prisoners of war from each side after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) acted as an intermediary.It is t…
German court rejects appeal by ex-Nazi secretary over role in 10,500 murders
Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty in 2022 of being an accessory to killings at Stutthof concentration campA German court has rejected an appeal by a 99-year-old woman who was convicted of being an accessory to more than 10,500 murders during her r…
โWe were sure the Russian army would protect usโ: fury after Ukrainian incursion into Kursk
As tens of thousands flee their homes in border region, many say government downplayed threat of invasionโข Russia-Ukraine war โ latest news updatesLyubov Antipova last spoke to her elderly parents almost two weeks ago, when she first heard rumours of a…
The Kursk attack has humiliated Putin โ and changed the narrative over how the war is fought | Orysia Lutsevych
This is the first time Russian territory has been occupied since the second world war. It disproves the notion Kyiv should cede territory to achieve peaceWhen video footage of the Ukrainian incursion into Russiaโs Kursk region began appearing on social…
Kursk incursion: how Ukraine turned the tables and struck back at Russia
Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footedRussia-Ukraine war โ latest news updatesIt was a critical and deliberate last-minute deployment on a previously unimportant part of the front. The R…
Germany: The rebirth of bunkers
German mayors are urging the federal government to release cash to restore air-raid shelters used during the Second World War. Around 600 of the 2,000 bunkers built over the past 80 years still exist, but they’ve been neglected for years. The German g…
Ukraine forces continuing to advance into Russian territory, says Zelenskiy
Kyiv says it has also launched a major drone attack on four Russian airbases and shot down an enemy jetUkraineโs president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his countryโs forces are continuing to advance into Russian territory after their surprise offensi…
Japan wants Indo-Pacific reassurance from Britainโs new Labour government
As Labour refocuses on Europe and America, doubts linger in Japan about whether it can rely on London.
Three review โ Yugoslavian trilogy of tales tracks the horrors of the second world war
Aleksandar Petroviฤโs 1965 interlinked stories focus on the changes wrought in one young Yugoslavian by the brutality of the war and its aftermathSerbian film-maker Aleksandar Petroviฤ was a member of the former Yugoslaviaโs insurgent Black Wave cinema…
How โworldโs first oil townโ is wrestling with fossil fuel legacy
Cop29 host Baku has cleaned up since its Black City days โ but this summit needs to do more than whitewash the facade of a petrostateJust a few miles from the site of the next UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a district that for more than …
Labour steals Tory playbook for financial blame game
Labour, with an eye on the next election, wants voters to hear that the public finances are worse than they thought โ so blame the Tories for higher taxes.
Orbรกnโs โpeace missionโ helps only Putin, says Czech prime minister
Petr Fiala says Hungarian PMโs trip to Moscow recalls appeasement of Hitler and is not in Europeโs interestsViktor Orbรกnโs efforts to style himself as a high-level peacemaker by meeting world leaders including Vladimir Putin are โwrongโ and โnot in the…
Britain finally has a female chancellor. It only took 800 years.
Meet Rachel Reeves: the chess-playing former banker who needs to get the U.K. economy rolling.
The Commandantโs Shadow review โ family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor
The son and grandson of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hรถss appear in Daniela Volkerโs engrossing documentary, a companion piece to Zone of InterestThe first shock delivered by this engrossing documentary is probably the queasy jolt of recognition. Hans J…
The Fifth Seal review โ a spiky political cabaret of cruelty and fear
Zoltรกn Fรกbriโs 1976 film follows military veteran Karoly in wartime Hungary as he asks fellow drinkers in a bar what they would choose: be the slave master or the slaveThe seventh seal that gave Ingmar Bergmanโs film its title is the one whose opening …
The Guardian view on the French election: time to build a republican future | Editorial
Progressive and centrist voters joined forces to keep Marine Le Penโs party at bay. But last-ditch resistance is not a long-term strategyConfronted with its biggest test since the second world war, Franceโs republican front magnificently, defiantly hel…
French artists, DJs and musicians unite to fight threat of far-right government
Front รlectronique acts as โworld of the nightโ to combat rise of Marine Le Penโs National RallyMore than 1,200 artists, DJs and promoters from the French music industry have come together in a bid to galvanise โthe world of the nightโ into political a…
The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent | Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others
We implore voters not to turn their backs on our nationโs history. Go out and defeat the far right in Sundayโs voteFor the first time since the second world war, the far right is at the gates of power in France. As historians from differing political b…
I never thought Iโd argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything | George Monbiot
A Putin-friendly president would pose a grave danger to Europe. Like it or not, this calls for greater defenceSoon after Labour forms a government, it will find itself in a new world. It now seems likely that Donald Trump will win the presidency of the…
โWeโve been thereโ: French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far-right
In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking power. They urge the French people not to forget the l…
Polish president slams Tusk for saying Poland will drop German reparations claims
President Andrzej Duda took aim at Prime Minister Donald Tusk for saying Poland had given up on war reparations claims against Germany launched by the previous conservative PiS government during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scho…
French centrists must decide: support the left โ or hand the keys of power to the far right? | Cole Stangler
Only a whole-hearted endorsement of the New Popular Front coalition can stop the National Rally in second-round votingIt was an impressive score for a coalition frantically cobbled together only three weeks ago. On Sunday, Franceโs broad leftwing elect…
How has Franceโs far-right National Rally evolved since 1972?
Opponents have said party is โpolitical heirโ of Vichy regime, which collaborated with Nazis, amid efforts to halt its risePolitical opponents of Marine Le Penโs poll-leading National Rally are seizing on the far-right partyโs history to try to mobilis…
โTheyโre trying to divide usโ: Muslims in France voice fears over rise of far right
People in Lyon say country at dangerous juncture in snap elections after National Rallyโs EU parliamentary gainsThey marched through the narrow streets of Lyonโs medieval old town, about three dozen of them, emboldened after the French far-right gains …
Nigel Farage blames admin error for candidates praising Hitler
Reform UK leader blames botched vetting contract for slew of controversial candidates.
Good riddance is Europeโs message to the Tories โ but Labour shouldnโt expect any favours | Paul Taylor
The Conservativesโ arrogance and incompetence wonโt be missed, and the next UK government will have to rebuild trustPaul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy CentreAfter a disastrous decade in which they blew up Britainโs relations…
D-day, Rishi Sunak and the eastern front | Letter
D-day commemorations have failed to mention equally important turning points in the war, says Prof Colin Green. Plus a letter from Ben SummerskillThe D-day 80th anniversary events were really moving, especially hearing from the veterans who survived. M…
Treasure review โ Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry uneasy in well-intentioned Holocaust drama
Wonky-toned story follows Dunham as a journalist visiting Poland, and Fry as her cuddly European dad, both trying to get to grips with family historyAn uncomfortable experience this: a laboriously acted odd-couple heartwarmer starring Lena Dunham and S…
‘Olaf Scolz is already a deeply unpopular chancellor’
“Olaf Scolz is already a deeply unpopular chancellor”, said FRANCE24’s correspondent in Berlin Nick Holdsworth. “These are the worst set of results for his SPD party since the Second World War. Already five years ago in the European elections, there w…
US couple, 100 and 96, marry in Normandy, France: โWe get butterfliesโ
Second world war veteran Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin enjoy wedding party โ with Macron and BidenTogether, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. But second world war veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart, Jeanne Swerlin, prov…
โWeโre in 1938 nowโ: Putinโs war in Ukraine and lessons from history
Some analysts believe Kyiv is buying the west time on the precipice of a world war. Is it being used wisely?When big history is self-evidently being written, and leaders face momentous choices, the urge to find inspiration in instructive historical par…
Biden and Macron use D-day event to emphasise support for Ukraine
Leaders rally behind Zelenskiy to make clear to Putin that, as in 1944, freedom in Europe is worth fighting forJoe Biden and Emmanuel Macron have marked the 80th anniversary of D-day with a rallying cry for support for Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskiy wa…
D-day: Biden calls for supporting Ukraine in struggle against โdark forcesโ
President warns at 80th anniversary that democracy is under great threat than at any time since second world warJoe Biden has marked the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy with an impassioned call to western allies to continue supportin…
‘You saved Europe’: Zelenskiy shares emotional embrace with D-day veteran โย video
The Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, exchanged a warm embrace with a veteran at the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy. The veteran kissed Zelenskiy’s hand and told him ‘you’re the saviour of the people’, to which the Ukrainian…
โI have never taken his sacrifice for grantedโ: D-day veterans honour comrades in Normandy
Servicemen and women involved in landings joined by royals and politicians at 80th anniversary commemorationsD-day 80th anniversary โ live updatesIt was not the profound silence of the moment of reflection, broken only by gentle birdsong, or even the s…
King Charles praises D-day veterans on 80th anniversary of landings โ video
King Charles has praised D-day veterans at the UKโs commemoration event in Ver-sur-Mer, France, on the 80th anniversary of the landings. ‘It is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we remember them and all those who served at that critical ti…
D-day 80th anniversary โ in pictures
Commemorations for the official anniversary of the D-day invasion of mainland Europe during the second world war by British, Canadian and other Commonwealth troops alongside the US and the Free FrenchD-day 80th anniversary โ live updates Continue readi…
D-day 80th anniversary: โlet us have their courage,โ says Macron of veterans as he warns of war returning to Europe โ as it happened
World leaders attend international commemorative ceremony as French president draws comparisons with Ukraine conflictWords of D-day veterans stir crowd in NormandyD-day 80th anniversary โ in picturesThe British prime minister Rishi Sunak will miss the …
D-day commemorations begin for 80th anniversary โ in pictures
Veterans and world leaders attend ceremonies to mark 80 years since allied troops landed in France during the second world war Continue reading…
‘D-Day needs to remind us of the horror of war,’ historian says
Commemorating D-Day is crucial to remind us of the horror of war. That’s the view of an historian who has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the fears that we are in a pre-war period with the threat of a third world war, and that this week’s commemorations sho…
Holocaust survivors urge young Europeans to vote against far right
Those who lived through Nazi atrocities say voters must use their voice in EU electionsA group of Holocaust survivors has issued a joint appeal before this weekendโs European parliament election urging younger voters to go to the polls and to exercise …
โPeople were ready to move onโ: D-day left little mark on key port of Southampton
โDisparateโ 80th anniversary efforts reflect those around UK, where only in recent times have calls for memorials increasedOf the British and Canadian troops who took part in D-day on 6 June 1944, two-thirds set off for the beaches of Normandy from Sou…
The Nazisโ Atlantic wall that failed to prevent D-day
For the 80th anniversary of the landings, AFP photojournalist Olivier Morin spent three weeks documenting the remnants of the supposedly impregnable defences designed to keep the allies at bayFearing an allied invasion of occupied Europe, Adolf Hitler …
Revealed: Churchillโs unsent letter that could have changed the course of history
On the eve of D-day, the wartime British PM drafted a letter that could have ended De Gaulleโs political careerIt is a letter that might have changed the course of European history- had it been sent.In early June 1944, a vast armada was gathering on th…
US warns Europe to get serious about Chinaโs aid to Russia
Beijing’s leadership is determined to back Moscow “to the hilt,” says State Department No. 2 Kurt Campbell.
โEvery piece of evidence is vitalโ: Holocaust survivor calls for victimsโ shoes to be salvaged
Manfred Goldberg, 94, urges authorities to preserve fragments of thousands of shoes left to rot at Stutthof concentration camp siteOne of the last remaining survivors of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has appealed to authorities to salvage fragme…
What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory
Nearly 80 years since the Allied invasion, the testimony of Charles Shay, a 99-year-old former US army medic, reminds us of the significance of that dayNext month will see the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, when about …
โThey call us Nazisโ: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise
Counter rallies in Kaufbeuren show split between supporters of AfD and locals who acknowledge the Bavarian townโs Nazi past Soaring church spires, the 1,000-year-old town centre unblemished by second world war bombing or graffiti, snow-capped Alps in t…
How Rishi Sunak bet the house on a snap summer election
The British prime minister’s last roll of the dice.
Matthew Zajac: โI set out to write about my fatherโs life but discovered his war stories were all liesโ
The actor and writer examines what drove his father to weave a false tale of an epic wartime journey from Poland to InvernessIt was some years after my dad died that I discovered he was a liar. I loved him enormously. But he was a liar. I grew up in In…
Germanyโs Pistorius uses US trip to push for more defense spending at home
As the defense minister sought to assure American leaders that Germany can defend Europe, his coalition government bickered over how to pay for it.
Victory Day in Russia โ in pictures
Vladimir Putin celebrated Victory Day in Russia, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war, with a display of patriotic pageantry. He praised his forces fighting in Ukraine and criticised the west for fuelling conflicts around the …
Putin watches Russian military parade featuring a solitary, Soviet-era tank
Victory Day event commemorating second world war highlights drain of Ukraine war on Russiaโs militaryA solitary, symbolic tank has featured in Russiaโs annual 9 May military parade for the second year in a row as the country was forced to pare down its…
A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion? | Timothy Garton Ash
In history, as in romance, beginnings matter โ so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the futureIn these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the f…
Five skeletons found under Wolfโs Lair home of Hermann Gรถring in Poland
Amateur archaeologists discover remains missing hands and feet at former Nazi military headquartersAmateur archaeologists have unearthed five human skeletons missing their hands and feet under the former home of the Nazi war criminal Hermann Gรถring at …
Hamburgโs sex workers persecuted under Hitler to be commemorated
Planned memorial aims at โdignified remembranceโ of women of St Pauli detained as perverts under the NazisSex workers in Hamburgโs historic red-light district who were persecuted under Adolf Hitler are to get their own memorial at Herbertstraรe, a noto…
Italian towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini
Ustica stripped local recognition for fascist dictator in law snaring all those deceased, but debate continues elsewhereA simple vote last Friday was enough to strip Walt Disney of his honorary citizenship of Ustica, as the tiny Sicilian island of 1,30…
Like Germanyโs president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoฤan, less so | Fatma Aydemir
Germanyโs complicity with Turkeyโs repressive regime worries me more than its dรถner diplomacyโNazis eat dรถner kebabs in secret,โ must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab i…
Thereโs Still Tomorrow review โ resoundingly sentimental drama in postwar Rome
Paola Cortellesiโs directing debut, in which she also stars, depicts gruelling domestic abuse before finding its way to startling redemptionItalian actor and singer Paola Cortellesi has been breaking hearts and box office records on her home turf with …
A look back at how women won the vote in France 80 years ago
Women in France were allowed to vote for a first time in municipal elections held on April 19, 1945, a watershed moment that had been years in the making. After World War I, while many democracies recognised womenโs pivotal role in the conflict and ga…
My familyโs past, and Germanyโs, weighs heavily upon me. And itโs why I feel so strongly about Gaza | Eva Ladipo
I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible historyI donโt usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfatherโs brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the W…
Vladimir Putin not welcome at French ceremony for 80th anniversary of D-day
France says Russia can be represented but president will not be invited because of war in UkraineRussia will be invited to send representatives to an international ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-day โ but not Vladimir Putin, the Frenc…