Officals, including Germany’s Angela Merkel and United States’ Mike Pence, arrive at the official ceremony in Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. IMAGES
Paris marked 75 years since its liberation from Nazi forces in World War II with a Freedom Parade on Sunday.
Flag carrying Parisians came out onto the streets in 1940s period costumes as tanks and military vehicles rolled through the French capital to re-create the route taken by Allied forces, led by French General Philippe Leclerc, to liberate the city in August 1944.
Paris firefighters gathered at the Eiffel tower and a French flag was raised underneath to commemorate the actions of Lucien Sarniguet, a firefighter who climbed the tower amidst gunfire to raise the tricolour and mark the liberation of Paris in 1944.
“I was here in Paris on VE day, I happened to have a pass to come into Paris and that was when they announced victory in Europe. And, at that time people went into the streets dancing in a very jovial mood, everybody happy that they had their freedom back,” Harry Angle, a WWII veteran from the US said at the parade.
The battle to liberate Paris took place from August 19, 1944 until August 25, 1944 when Nazi forces finally surrendered. Some 600 Parisians, 130 Allied soldiers and nearly 1,000 French Resistance fighters were killed in the fighting.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin hopped into a bathyscaphe to dive 50 meters deep underwater and pay tribute to the crew of a Soviet submarine, which mysteriously disappeared in the Baltic Sea during WWII while fighting the Nazis.
Known for his love of exploring nature’s depths and heights, Putin on Saturday embarked on a deep-sea mission on board the submersible C-Explorer 3.11.
This time, however, the president’s adventure had a somber tone, as the mission’s target – the wreckage of the Soviet Navy submarine ShCh-308 Syomga (‘Atlantic Salmon’) – had become a mass grave for the vessel’s crew while returning to their base near St. Petersburg during World War II.
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Lobster went from prison food to a well-known delicacy. Seafood was left out of rationed foods during WWII, and with the advent of railway transportation, lobster became known as an exotic delicacy.
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A bomb thought to date from WWII exploded in an open field in Limburg-Ahlbach in Hesse on Monday, leaving a wide crater in the ground, as confirmed by police.
Residents heard a loud noise and the earth trembling at around 3:50 am on Monday morning, when the blast occurred. Upon going to the field they discovered a 10-metre wide and four-metre deep hole.
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When President Donald Trump singled out 98-year-old Ray Lambert in his Normandy speech at the 75th-anniversary commemoration of D-Day, the WWII survivor took it as a tribute for all the men who fought that day. (June 6)
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“It’s wonderful to come back here, to see where I landed and where I fought”: 95-year-old Eugene is in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. Like him, hundreds of veterans and thousands of tourists have flocked to Northern France, to commemorate the turning point of WWII.
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Benihana’s founder Hiroaki “Rocky” Aoki, beat his stacked odds by opening a Japanese restaurant in post-WWII America. WWII made Americans fear and resent Japanese culture. Aoki, at first, deliberately banned anything that seemed fishy or slimy, and focused on the main proteins of the American diet, chicken, steak, and shrimp.
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Air Force planes roared over Sheffield to honor 10 American airmen who sacrificed their lives to save British children playing in a park beneath their crippled bomber during World War II. One of those children, now 82, still feels guilt. (Feb. 22)
One of the last surviving WWII tank gunners was surprised Wednesday with a ride on top of a Sherman tank through the streets of Boston. 95-year-old Clarence Smoyer fought with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division in Germany. (Feb. 21)
Nearly 73 years after a racially fueled beating at the hands of a white police chief left a black WWII veteran blind, a South Carolina town is honoring his memory. (Feb. 11)
Uneasy relations between South Korea & Japan have suffered another blow. Tokyo is outraged at a court ruling, that awarded South Korean steel workers over $88,000 compensation for forced labour during the Second World War. Only one of the men is still alive. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9hiq
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Moscow is commemorating the victory over Nazi Germany in WWII with a fireworks display on Victory Day by illuminating several locations in Russia’s capital, including Red Square, Sparrow Hills, and Poklonnaya Hill.
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A presidential aide pushed away a decorated World War II veteran to make way for Vladimir Putin during Victory Day celebrations. The president then welcomed the man and accompanied him to Alexander Garden.
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This letter to the mother of a fallen Soviet soldier was never delivered, as it got lost in the maelstrom of WWII, only to surface in the US 70 years later.
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Our football fanatics fly into Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad – the site of World War II’s bloodiest battle. After engaging in a little agro-tourism, they take a night stroll along the city’s spectacular riverside promenade, where the fan zone for the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be. The next day, they check out the stunning new Volgograd Arena, which was specially built to harmonise with The Motherland Calls statue towering in the distance. On their final day, the friends check out the epic 85-metre monument to those who lost their lives defending the city
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Wreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announces.
The president of the Polish Senate has called on Poles living abroad to denounce all manifestations of anti-Polish sentiment – in a letter sent to Polish embassies around the world. This comes in the wake of a controversial Holocaust law designed to prevent people from erroneously describing Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau as Polish, simply because they were set up on Polish soil.
