Dozens of men, women and children executed by the Nazis are discovered nearly 80 years later after Polish man remembered seeing families being led away to die when he was a small boy The skeletal remains of more than 25 men, women and children were uncovered in Warsaw, Poland this week Site was pointed out … Read more
Dame Jenni Murray calls for Britain to confront its colonial history in same way Germany has with the Nazis – saying we have ‘a lot to learn from the Germans’ Former BBC Radio 4 presenter said Brits should teach its citizens about empire She praised Germany’s approach of including Nazism in art and theatre Mrs … Read more
Professor Kehinde Andrews is a controversial academic who is regularly wheeled out on TV debates to air his divisive views – including that Britain is ‘built on racism’ and that ‘everyone involved in it probably has a really racist past’. The professor of black studies at Birmingham City University has branded ‘whiteness’ a ‘psychosis’, called … Read more
A Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis with his family from Austria during World War II has bequeathed an undisclosed fortune to the French village whose residents hid them from persecution for years. Eric Schwam, who arrived in Chambon-sur-Lignon with his parents and maternal grandmother in February 1943, is believed to have left around two … Read more
An Enigma machine — the German encryption device used by Nazi forces to send secret message during World War II — has been recovered from the Baltic Sea. Divers recovered the device at the bottom of Gelting Bay, on Germany‘s northern coast, while working to remove abandoned fishing nets that threaten marine life. Designed shortly … Read more
The history GCSE curriculum is set for a Black Lives Matter revamp to teach pupils about the experiences of minorities at key moments in time. The Telegraph reported that exam boards have been in discussion with a number of groups since the summer regarding how courses could be expanded to include more black history. It comes … Read more
How a church-going horticulturalist from Sheffield defied the Nazis during WWII: Woman’s relentlessly cheerful correspondence with her cousin in America during the Blitz helped derail Hitler’s propaganda campaign Winifred Graville penned letters about the Blitz to her American cousin Jane Horticulturalist wrote that the Nazis would not terrify Britain into submission She also documented Sheffield’s … Read more
The Independent newspaper columnist who masterminded the Extinction Rebellion blockade of prinworks has claimed that the British media is worse than the Nazis. More than 100 protesters targeted Newsprinters printing works at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and Knowsley, near Liverpool, on Friday night, blocking newspapers from leaving the depots. Donnachadh McCarthy, 61, has emerged as one of … Read more
A Muslim spy who was executed by the Nazis at Dachau concentration camp in 1944 is the first Indian-origin woman to be honoured with a blue plaque. Noor Inayat Khan, of Indian and US descent, served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was set up by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940. The English Heritage … Read more
An Executive Producer for the BBC‘s Songs of Praise has compared singing Rule Britannia to Nazis singing about gas chambers. Cat Lewis, who is also CEO of television production company Nine Lives Media, weighed in on the controversy surrounding the BBC’s decision to drop the singing of patriotic anthems from the Last Night of the Proms. … Read more