The World Wars

From: The Listening Post
The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory
Eighty years since WWII, we examine the fragility of historical memory and a rise in Holocaust revisionism in Europe.
Video Duration 25 minutes 20 seconds
Published On 9 Sep 2023
Top Russia, China officials visit N Korea in post-pandemic first
Visits ahead of N Korea’s Victory Day indicate a key shift in Pyongyang’s stringent enforcement of COVID border curbs.
Published On 25 Jul 2023
History Illustrated: The Berlin Airlift and the new Cold War
Stalin’s decision to blockade West Berlin was a defining moment of the Cold War that reverberates to this day.
Published On 26 Jun 2023
From: Witness
Paper City: Surviving the world’s deadliest air raid
Survivors of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo campaign for official recognition of this forgotten tragedy.
Video Duration 47 minutes 20 seconds
Published On 7 Jun 2023

Enforcement officers find 100 unexploded artillery shells and rusted piles of metal on board dredger in South China Sea.

The Patek Philippe Ref 96 Quantieme Lune once belonged to the last emperor of China’s Qing Dynasty Aisin-Gioro Puyi.

Japan’s SS Montevideo Maru was sunk in 1942 by a US submarine unaware that more than 1,000 prisoners of war were onboard.

The Auschwitz camp memorial director equated Nazi crimes of World War II with Russian forces now in Ukraine.

Some victims of forced labour under the Japanese during World War II denounced the plan as ‘humiliating’.

Irmgard Furchner has been found guilty of complicity in mass killings at WWII concentration camp.

As water levels reached historically low levels across Europe in 2022, history emerged from its depths.

The formal demand comes despite Germany saying all financial claims linked to the war had been settled.

The leader of Poland’s governing party says the official demand for the reparations will be submitted to Germany.

Putin did not mention Ukraine by name, gave no assessment of progress in the war, or say how long it will last.

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