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Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv unleashes hundreds of drones on Russia after Putin rejected Zelenskyy meeting
11+ hour, 53+ min ago (346+ words) Ukraine targets St Petersburg in wave of strikes; Keir Starmer to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU leaders for talks. What we know on day 1, 565 Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia early on Saturday, leaving one person dead and setting…...
Sixty thousand love letters and counting: volunteers help sift through vast German trove of devotion
4+ day, 35+ min ago (1261+ words) Team is working to digitise archive of correspondence donated by public, charting relationships, social history and evolution of language After four decades together, Tatiana and Steffen Missbach still write each other love letters. "A good love letter is specific " not…...
My father, the German refugee who fought the Nazis as a "secret listener
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (707+ words) As the far right fulminates about who "belongs" in Britain, let"s remember Fritz Lustig, who arrived here in 1939, just months before war broke out. Initially jailed as an "enemy alien", he played a vital role in a top-secret military…...
Pressure review " Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can't save lower-tier D-day drama
1+ week, 4+ day ago (383+ words) A behind-the-scenes second world war drama focused on the importance of weather is too stodgy and repetitive to work as anything but a so-so TV movie In a world of increasingly segmented audiences, the new movie Pressure cleverly brings together…...
World War II with Tom Hanks review " one of the largest documentaries in human history
1+ week, 4+ day ago (379+ words) This 20-episode take on the second world war, helmed by the Saving Private Ryan star, is a vast creation. But it still manages to wind up feeling basic " despite its great archive footage World War II with Tom Hanks opens…...
TV tonight: Tom Hanks's epic new documentary series
1+ week, 5+ day ago (263+ words) The Hollywood star brings his knowledge of the second world war to the small screen. Plus: Zoe Ball goes in search of distant relatives. Here's what to watch this evening 8pm, Channel 4 A new series kicks off with the dreaded secret…...
Remains of US solider killed in WWII returned to Pennsylvania after 80 years
1+ week, 5+ day ago (545+ words) John A Walko was identified through DNA and brought home to Pennsylvania 80 years after his WWII death The remains of a US soldier killed during the second world war were returned to his Pennsylvania hometown more than 80 years after he…...
From vulva scarves to Prince Andrew " 10 of the Guardian's most memorable Pass Notes
1+ week, 6+ day ago (606+ words) As the series reaches its 5, 000th entry, one of its regular writers reveals what it's like to put together this cribsheet of the modern world " and the bizarre topics he's never been able to forget From the outset, Pass Notes was…...
My parents didn't talk about the past': how director Caroline Huppert recovered her family's wartime secrets
2+ week, 1+ day ago (21+ words) The Guardian...
The Netherlands is confronting its history of Nazi occupation " but many stolen objects remain unreturned
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1015+ words) Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes Several months ago the Dutch art detective Arthur Brand was amazed to be contacted by a man who had…...