FOUND: 2 | Mind Blowing Facts

Second World War veterans with combined age of 300 take off in Spitfires

The trio boarded the aircraft on Thursday morning.

Evening Standard · Aug 13

Drones to hunt for unexploded Second World War bombs exposed by wildfire

Dunwich Heath was used as a training ground during the Second World War and since the fire, two unexploded ordnance have been found.

Evening Standard · Aug 12

Mystery solved: story of Wehrmacht motorbike found in the Danube

Record low water on the Danube has revealed in Budapest a perfectly preserved Wehrmacht DKW NZ 350-1 motorbike from WWII. Euronews investigates its role, its factory origins, when it may have sunk, and whether the dead nearby were its riders.

Euronews · Aug 8

Zack Polanski says fossil fuel producers must pay for firefighting helicopters

‘We are facing the biggest threat to this country since the Second World War,’ Green Party leader Zack Polanski said.

Evening Standard · Aug 5

French wildfires expose cache of buried Second World War shells

Devastating wildfires in the southwest of France have uncovered a hidden cache of Second World War-era shells in the village of Le Porge, adding an explosive edge to an already dangerous situation.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 3

Low water levels: EU clears old Nazi warships from the Danube

Near Prahovo in Serbia, relics of the Second World War emerge when river levels are low. On the riverbed lie numerous wrecks of German warships scuttled by their crews in 1944 as they retreated from the Red Army.

Euronews · Jul 30

Regime Change might be 2026’s nonfiction bestseller. Here’s why it’s essential, chilling reading

Not long after the second world war, the Jewish, German-born political philosopher Leo Strauss coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It suggests that simply comparing something to Adolf Hitler does not inevitably taint it with the Nazi dictator’s terrible crimes. Hitler was a vegetarian, but that doesn’t make all vegetarians…

The Conversation · Jul 29

At a time of harder borders and ‘ruthless’ rhetoric, the Refugee Convention is more important than ever

This month marks 75 years since the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention on July 28 1951. Negotiated in the aftermath of the second world war, the treaty came into force three years later after Australia became the sixth country to ratify it.

The Conversation · Jul 23

Nagaland Is the Northeast Indian State That Will Rearrange Your Assumptions About India

The India you thought you knew stops at the foothillsKohima sits at roughly 1,500 metres above sea level, and the air there does something immediate to your assumptions. The town is the capital of Nagaland, a state that shares borders with Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh, and it looks nothing like…

Times Life · Jul 23

Aristides de Sousa Mendes: the man who braved 'consequences' to save thousands from Nazis

On Sunday 19 July, Portugal marked 141 years since the birth of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the diplomat who saved over 30,000 from Nazi persecution in WWII. A museum there is dedicated to his life and legacy.

Euronews · Jul 20