4 h. ago WW2 veteran's plea ahead of VE Day after seeing concentration camp horror firsthand

As a young British Jewish soldier Mervyn Kersh was 'on a mission' when he joined up in World War II but nothing could prepare him for the horrors he saw and wants the world to remember

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3 d. ago RAF veteran issues 'never again' plea to young Brits ahead of VE Day

RAF veteran Dennis Bishop, 99, made an impassioned plea to Britain's next generation today ahead of Monday's historic VE Day fly past

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6 d. ago Horrifying secrets of Nazi concentration camp's human experiments including hurling grenades into a packed room are revealed in trove of Soviet documents

The shocking crimes at Sachsenhausen have been revealed in declassified files containing the statements of the camp's commandant.

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1 week ago Croatia commemorates victims of WWII concentration camp where tens of thousands perished

Croatia has commemorated the victims of a World War II concentration camp where tens of thousands of people perished in the hands of the pro-Nazi puppet regime at the time

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3 w. ago Horror as remains of four victims of 'Little Auschwitz' Nazi concentration camp for children are found

The chilling discovery was made in the city of Lodz by researchers from the country's Institute of National Remembrance which is tasked with investigating WWII crimes.

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3 w. ago Nazi 'secretary of evil' dies aged 99 after being convicted for murder of 10,500 people

Irmgard Furchner, who was convicted of aiding 10,505 murders at the Stutthof concentration camp, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', has died in Germany

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3 w. ago Nazi 'secretary of evil' convicted of aiding 10,500 murders dies at 99

Irmgard Furchner, who worked at a Polish concentration camp, died last month at the age of 99 after being convicted of aiding and abetting the murder of 10,500 prisoners

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3 w. ago What They Found review – Sam Mendes’s debut documentary has the power to change viewers for ever

This tale of two British army sergeants who filmed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp uses their profoundly disturbing footage. It’s TV that could alter your whole world viewWhat They Found, the first documentary by the film and theatre director Sam Mendes, is a short, stark shock. The film straightforwardly combines two precious artefacts held at the Imperial War Museum in London: 35mm film, shot by Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit, before and during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near the town of Celle in northern Germany in April 1945; and audio interviews given by the cameramen in the 1980s. Lewis and Lawrie did not record sound when they visited Belsen; the words they spoke years later are the only sounds we hear.Lewis and Lawrie do not arrive at Belsen until almost halfway through the film’s 36-minute running time. First, laid over generic archive footage, we hear how they came to be a...

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3 w. ago Nazi death camp 'secretary of evil' dies just 2 years after facing justice for 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', joined Stutthof concentration camp as a teenage shorthand typist and worked there from 1943 to 1945 as secretary to the SS commander Paul Werner Hoppe

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3 w. ago Nazi death camp 'secretary of evil' dies after conviction over role in 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, dubbed the 'Secretary of Evil', joined Stutthof concentration camp as a teenage shorthand typist and worked there from 1943 to 1945 as secretary to the SS commander Paul Werner Hoppe

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3 w. ago Nazi death camp's 'secretary of evil' dies aged 99: Woman fled nursing home and went on the run before finally facing justice for aiding more than 10,000 murders

Irmgard Furchner, who was a secretary to the SS commander of the infamous concentration camp Stutthof, died aged 99, German outlet Bild reports.

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4 w. ago Former German president warns of far right at 80th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Germany has marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp, with warnings against “radicalization and a worldwide shift to the right.”

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