Out of 60 family members – I’m one of 6 Holocaust survivors

Holocaust survivor Alfred Garwood recounts his story of liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 80 years ago and the trauma he's healed.

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Metro wants your VE Day stories and memories to mark 80th its anniversary

VE Day 2025 marks 80 years since the Allies defeated the Nazis, forcing Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945.

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How many modern day companies would do something like this? Or do the fascists own car manufacturers?

Think that we're fighting this rise of fascism alone this time!

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Today in Labor History April 12, 1935: 150,000 college students protested across the U.S. in the first nationwide student strike against war. Between 1936 and 1939, the movement mobilized at least 500,000 college students (almost 50% of all American college students at the time) in annual one-hour strikes against war.

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Bomb squad descend with residents evacuated after discovery 'during house move'

A WWII tank shell was 'uncovered' on a street in Stockport

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Rare Alan Turing wartime papers saved for the nation thanks to fundraising effort

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Rare Alan Turing wartime papers saved for the nation thanks to fundraising effort

An export bar was placed on the documents to prevent them being taken abroad

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

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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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Man plans to use World War II bomb found in his garden as beer cooler

The bomb's discovery lead to Ross' street being shut with an explosive ordnance disposal unit ensured the device was safe.

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Nazi mystery that left three Brits dead finally solved after 82 years

RAF Airman Leslie Norman Row, from Gravesend, Kent, was flying a mission near the coast of Greece when his Baltimore Bomber was attacked.

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#BletchleyPark code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

A decorated #WorldWarTwo code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101.

Mrs Webb, from Wythall in Worcestershire, joined operations at the Buckinghamshire base at the age of 18, later going on to help with Japanese codes at The Pentagon in the US. She was awarded France's highest honour - the Légion d'Honneur - in 2021.
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Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101

Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.