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The World Wars
![Don Ferencz as a baby with his father, Benjamin Ferencz, in Nuremberg in 1952 [Photo courtesy of the Ferencz family]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DonFbaby-2.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Don Ferencz’s father prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg and made sure his son understood the depths of their crimes.
![On the right, Moses Turner, the father of Tali Nates, with other Holocaust survivors. This photograph was taken after liberation in 1945 [Photo courtesy of Tali Nates]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Talioldyoungmen.png?resize=570%2C380)
Seventy-five years after senior Nazis were tried, a survivor’s daughter describes growing up in the...
![German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (centre) delivers his speech during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg war crimes trials [Daniel Karmann /AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_8VK8LF.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
German president urges the world to honour the landmark proceedings that gave birth to international...
![A picture taken in 1946 during the Nuremberg trial where Nazi criminals were judged for their crimes [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/000_SAPA990402375140.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Seeing genocide as less exceptional may help us view war crimes and crimes against humanity in a more serious light.
![The Frank children - (from left to right) Norman, Michael, Niklas, Sigrid and Brigitte - in 1942 at their house in Schliersee, Germany [Photo courtesy of Niklas Frank]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Niklasbalckwhite.png?resize=270%2C180)
The son of a senior Nazi sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials on growing up in the shadow of his father’s crimes.
![The documents sold to anonymous bidders for well above their starting prices [File: Sem Van Der Wal/EFE]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h_55871847.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Critics had called for the Munich auction house to halt the sales, saying they would encourage neo-Nazis.
Emperor Naruhito expresses ‘deep remorse’ over his country’s wartime actions at a sombre annual ceremony.
![The display of military strength and patriotism during the Victory Day parade has become a hallmark of Putin's rule [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/c3b807653caf49718b647ef85d584063_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Russian president claims pandemic past its peak as he orders postponed World War II parade to be held next month.
![Protesters sang anti-fascists songs and held up photos of resistance members who were tortured and killed [Dado Ruvic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/84e0ccb6c1724e89ae155d0cb23586ee_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Thousands demonstrate against a mass in Sarajevo for Croatia’s Nazi-allied soldiers, civilians after World War II ended.
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Letters to a Nazi
She enjoyed art, opera and nature while he sent hundreds of thousands of people to their deaths.
![Belarus has not imposed lockdown measures or social distancing rules in light of the coronavirus outbreak [Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/e3f3adb46a144916a486d2a386e7cb89_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
President Lukashenko said it was unacceptable for his country to even think about cancelling the event.
![Combat aircraft fly in formation during an air parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2020 [Reuters/Tatyana Makeyeva]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/a4bb84b746d14e6c8dd71b8aed90701a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Why is the Kremlin so obsessed with World War II?
![Theatre director Matt Baker and his neighbours in the English town of Chester dressed up to mark the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day [Molly Darlington/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/fe93c336d4bd4c849095528f1c7d1fdb_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Reflective wreath laying and socially distant street parties rang in the 75th anniversary of VE Day.