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How the end of World War II in Europe is rooted in French city of Reims

On 7 May,1945, the German High Command, led by General Alfred Jodl, signed the unconditional surrender of all German forces and effectively ended the Second World War. The signing took place in a no-frills war room in a school building in Reims in northeastern France.

Radio France Internationale

Jean Argles obituary

Codebreaker who served in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Inside secret vaults hidden under historic UK city which are up for sale for first time

Hidden beneath a solicitor's chambers, Hull's secret vaults have a fascinating history and were used to house people escaping the Blitz during the Second World War

Daily Mirror

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'The Conservatives have ruined our country. The alternative is a Labour government'

The Government’s mismanagement of the economy has inflicted the steepest fall in living standards since the Second World War

Daily Mirror

Scrapping housing targets will cost renters £200 a year, says Labour

The party said Rishi Sunak’s approach to planning will lead to the lowest rate of housebuilding since the Second World War.

The Independent UK

Anne Frank’s story transformed the world’s view of the Holocaust. This woman kept her family and her diary alive

The diary of Anne Frank — written as she hid with her family and others in the annex of an Amsterdam building while Hitler’s Nazis hunted for Jews in the Second World War — is one of the most widely read books in the world. A new series shines a…

The Independent UK

Australia to prioritise long-range strike capability in defence shakeup

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday his government had accepted the key findings of a review recommending the biggest shakeup of Australia's defence since the end of the Second World War.

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Easter egg left untouched for 84 years after girl, 9, given it during World War Two

The chocolate egg was given to Sybil Cook in 1939 but with the Second World War looming, her uncle advised her to ration it slowly and savour every morsel

Daily Mirror

Untouched Easter egg bought in 1939 to be auctioned

The chocolate egg was given to Sybil Cook in 1939 but with the Second World War looming, her uncle advised her to ration it.

The Independent UK

People are only just realising 'vital' reason why street railings have kinks

It turns out that their purpose dates all the way back to the Second World War.

Daily Record

Families in UK to light 30,000 candles to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

UK Yom HaShoah remembers the six million Jews killed in The Second World War and sees families light yellow candles - each one marking the life of someone who died

Daily Mirror

Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds predicted environmental crisis 70 years ago

In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war.

The Conversation

Edith Velmans obituary

Other lives: Author of Edith’s Book, an account of her years in hiding from the Nazis in Holland during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

Putin doesn’t want the war to end – he wants to blast us back to the 40s Soviet era

Russia is harking back to the glory days of the second world war, writes the Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov

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The Independent UK

King and Queen Consort to close Germany visit with focus on Second World War

Charles will focus on the Second World War as his three-day state visit to Germany with the Queen Consort draws to a close.

The Week

Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace review: historic adventures in Budapest

Housed in one of the world’s most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings, the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace is the ideal destination to experience Hungary’s capital city, Budapest. Surviving pieces from the Belle Époque era and the Second World War are stashed across its five floors, and from the outside the…

Edinburgh Live

Plans to transform East Lothian Second World War toilet block into a family home

The out-building is thought to have been a female toilet block used by the auxiliary air force during the Second World War. Plans have been drawn up which would see it make way for a family home

Bangkok Post

Righting the wrongs of development

A key issue with which the world community has had to grapple since the end of the Second World War is that of "development", especially from the angle of national and international measures to ensure responsiveness to the rights and needs of the peoples of the land, without discrimination and…

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Evening Standard

Who was Marcel Marceau? Google Doodle celebrates French mime artist

Marceau used his skills to liberate Jewish children from Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War

Evening Standard

Plea for mourners to attend funeral for RAF ‘pilot of the Caribbean’

A desperate search is under way to find mourners to attend the funeral of one of the Second World War’s last black “Pilots of the Caribbean”.

Daily Mirror

Al Murray on war games, Putin and how to solve a problem like Suella Braverman

The Pub Landlord turned history buff Al Murray says the war in Ukraine "is a direct product of WW2”

The Guardian - UK

Ernest Simon obituary

Other lives: Austrian who fled to the UK before the second world war and later worked for ICI across Europe

Irish Mirror

The forgotten 62-year record that Erling Haaland is closing in on.

Haaland is seeking to become just the second player to score over 40 league goals in an English top tier season since the Second World War.

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