Second world war
Funeral of black second world war veteran moved as large crowds expected
Westminster council says new date and venue being arranged to ensure Ft Sgt Peter Brown gets ‘sendoff he deserves’
Guardian staff and agency
25, Mar, 2023 @12:19 PM
Search under way for family of one of RAF’s last black WW2 veterans
MPs and ministers support campaign to locate relatives of Peter Brown, who died alone in London aged 96
Tobi Thomas
22, Mar, 2023 @2:44 PM
Dachau concentration camp established – archive, March 1933
On 22 March 1933, the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany opened near this town in Bavaria. It was initially intended to house Hitler’s political opponents
Compiled by Richard Nelsson
22, Mar, 2023 @9:59 AM
Ernest Simon obituary
Other lives: Austrian who fled to the UK before the second world war and later worked for ICI across Europe
Barnabas Balint
20, Mar, 2023 @8:26 PM
‘Stop the boats’ does echo the language of the 30s – but those words were English | Kenan Malik
Gary Lineker need not have referred to Nazis – similar policies applied in Britain too
Kenan Malik
19, Mar, 2023 @6:30 AM
Farm Hall review – riveting wartime thriller shows secret mission to bug German nuclear scientists
As the race to produce the first atomic bomb nears its terrible conclusion in 1945, six members of Germany’s nuclear weapons programme are detained at a stately home in Cambridgeshire
Arifa Akbar
15, Mar, 2023 @12:27 PM
Condor’s Nest review – Tarantino-esque Nazi-hunt thriller heads for the pampas
Director Phil Blattenberger wears his love for the genre on his sleeve, but this allows him to outrun the film’s uneven execution and loose plot
Phil Hoad
13, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
‘I couldn’t love her’: the last UK child migrants to Australia on the long, lonely search for their mothers
Seven thousand British children were sent to Australia last century, told they were orphans or unwanted. It wasn’t true. Now facing old age, 1,400 are still searching for their families
Susan Chenery
12, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM
The Collaborators by Ian Buruma review – intriguing study of the frenemy within
The writer digs deep into the often deceptive history of three people who conspired with their oppressors in this fascinating if disjointed examination of moral ambiguity
Matthew Reisz
12, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM
Stephen Fry: Willem and Frieda – Defying the Nazis review – oh, what an astounding story this is!
Fry lovingly brings to life the incredible adventures of two war heroes, whose all-night forgery parties fuelled by booze and amphetamines saved thousands of Jews
Ellen E Jones
02, Mar, 2023 @10:30 PM
Lady Martha Bruce obituary
Governor of Scotland’s only all-female prison whose military career shaped her pioneering approach to women in custody
Tessa Dunlop
23, Feb, 2023 @3:24 PM
To obtain the right to Czech nationality, I had to take the government to court | Letter
Letter: Vicky Unwin on her five-year Kafkaesque struggle to get Czech citizenship
16, Feb, 2023 @5:44 PM
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