History Archives

The Nazi symbol has been scrawled into the Buchenwald memorial centre's visitors' book, and vandals have cut down trees planted at the site in memory of survivors of the camp

World

Rise of Germany’s far-right AfD stokes fears at concentration camp site

The historian running the memorial at Germany’s former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald is no stranger to hate crime and threats, but he fears more...

AFPSeptember 4, 2024

President Andrzej Duda lays a wreath at the monument in memory of victims of the Nazi bombing on September 1, 1939

World

Poland marks 85 years since WWII outbreak

Nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall, including the six million Jews.

AFPSeptember 1, 2024

Around 70-80 percent of his customers are foreign tourists, who have flocked to Japan in record numbers this year, says the manager of a vintage video game shop

Tech & Science

Japan is next level for retro game collectors

Retro games can reach sky-high prices: a still-wrapped version of the game "Super Mario Bros.", released in 1985, sold in 2021 for $2 million.

AFPAugust 27, 2024

Resoration work has left the central part of HMS victory encased in scaffolding

World

Deathwatch beetle threat to celebrated British warship

HMS Victory has survived the cannonballs of Napoleon’s navy, being rammed by another warship, a World War II bomb, even UK navy plans to...

AFPAugust 26, 2024

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te (C) presents incense during an event marking the 66th anniversary of China's artillery attack on the Kinmen islands

World

Taiwan leader urges unity on Chinese attack anniversary

Taiwanese must “unite as one” against the threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said Friday, as the island marked the 66th anniversary of a...

AFPAugust 23, 2024

The reconstructed tower at Potsdam's Garrison Church has sparked debate about Germany's Nazi history

World

Protests as rebuilt tower opens at German church with Nazi links

Protesters picketed a newly-rebuilt German church tower Thursday, part of a controversial reconstruction of a building with links to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi...

AFPAugust 22, 2024

Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have shed more than half-a-trillion tonnes annually since 2000 -- six icy Olympic pools every second

Life

Book review: Exploring the cultural connection between humans and ice through time

In the book, Baril explores the shifting view that humans have long held of glaciers—from fear, to awe, to conquest.

Dr. Tim SandleAugust 15, 2024

Operation Dragoon 'succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its advocates'

World

The other D-Day: France remembers WWII Provence landings

France on Thursday remembers the 1944 Allied landings in Provence, an event overshadowed by the Normandy landings two months earlier, but still key to...

AFPAugust 14, 2024