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The Nazi military used the machines to send and receive secret messages during the war (Pic courtesy of Christian Howe - Submaris)

Divers find WWII Enigma machine at bottom of Baltic Sea

News Lens • 04 Dec 20

The number of participants in this year's ceremony was reduced due to coronavirus fears

Nagasaki commemorates 75 years since atomic bombing

World • 09 Aug 20

The plaintiffs were in areas showered in radioactive 'black rain' following the attack

Japanese court recognises more Hiroshima bomb survivors

World • 29 Jul 20

Bruno Day hides his face as he is brought into court in May

Ex-Nazi concentration camp guard on trial in Germany

World • 06 Jul 20

Russian military helicopters fly over Moscow's Red Square

Russia stages grand WWII parade ahead of reform vote

News Lens • 24 Jun 20

Croatian groups gather each year for the commemorations, co-organised by the Catholic Church in Bosnia and Croatia

Protests against mass remembering Nazi collaborators

Europe • 16 May 20

Thousands of troops parade before crowds in Belarus

At a glance: Worldwide cases pass 4 million

Coronavirus • 09 May 20

Ceremonies have been drastically scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic

Europe marks 75 years since end of WWII

World • 08 May 20

Documents on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are seen at the Vatican Secret Archives

Vatican opens archive on pope's silence during WWII

World • 03 Mar 20

A man stands in front of the memorial to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden

Dresden bombing continues to cast shadow across Germany

News Lens • 13 Feb 20

As night fell, survivors and dignitaries carried flickering candles as they walked along the railway that brought Jews from across Europe to the gas chambers

Auschwitz survivors mark 75 years since liberation

World • 27 Jan 20

The grave of Reinhard Heydrich was 'dug up in the night between Wednesday and Thursday'

Grave of Nazi Heydrich dug up in Berlin

World • 16 Dec 19

The 12.5kg gold bars were placed in wooden crates and loaded into security trucks (Pic: G4S)

8,000 bars of WWII gold returned to Poland

News Lens • 05 Dec 19

Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germans committed crimes against humanity in Poland

German President asks for Poland's forgiveness for WWII

World • 01 Sep 19

Angela Merkel underlined the importance of remembering the anniversary

Germany remembers heroes in Hitler assassination bid

World • 21 Jul 19

Two original railway boxcars at the WWII Westerbork transit camp in the memorial center in Hooghalen, the Netherlands

Dutch railway to compensate Holocaust survivors

World • 26 Jun 19

The Berlin construction site where a WWII bomb was found close to the Alexanderplatz

World War II bomb in central Berlin forces evacuation

Europe • 14 Jun 19

Paddy the pigeon was awarded the Dickin Medal

The Irish pigeon who played a vital role in D-Day

Ireland • 06 Jun 19

Eugeniusz Nead, 94, from the Polish army arrives at commemoration grounds in Southsea Common

Veterans join world leaders to mark D-Day landings

World • 05 Jun 19

The Nazis destroyed the camp in Poland

Last known survivor of Sobibor Nazi death camp dies

World • 03 Jun 19

Nazi doctors carried out grotesque human experimentation

Microscopic remains of Nazi victims to be buried

World • 13 May 19

Germany took over Brest in June 1941 and shot thousands of Jews in the city days later

790 bodies found in WWII-era mass grave in Belarus

World • 27 Feb 19

The unexploded bomb is believed to have been dropped on the city by American forces

Word War II bomb defused in German city of Ludwigshafen

News • 26 Aug 18

A federal judge revoked Jakiw Palij's US citizenship in 2003

US deports accused former Nazi guard to Germany

World • 21 Aug 18

Heiko Maas described Auschwitz as "the most horrible place on earth"

German foreign minister visits 'horrible' Auschwitz

World • 20 Aug 18

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