WWII

SS papers, personal belongings and a model train set part of WWII ‘Wałbrzych Treasure’ uncovered by plumbers in sealed basement

The welded-shut containers containing SS documents and personal belongings including a model train set were part of a treasure haul of around 70 boxes and packages hidden by one or more German families in a walled-off basement of a building in the Lower Silesian city nearly 80 years ago. Roman Szełemej/Facebook

The welded-shut containers containing SS documents and personal belongings including a model train set were part of a treasure haul of around 70 boxes and packages hidden by one or more German families in a walled-off basement of a building in the Lower Silesian city nearly 80 years ago.

Descendant of Holocaust survivors tracks down saviors in Poland after Righteous Among Nations nomination

When Jeffrey Cymbler heard from Yad Vashem that an official ceremony was not possible as no living relatives of the Poles who had saved his Jewish family could be found, he set out to find them.

Letter revealing last known movements of WWII’s most important looted artwork uncovered

Said to be written by an SS officer in 1947, the letter is the first documentary evidence that Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man was transported at the end of the war from Kraków to Germany.

‘Priceless’ Stradivarius violin looted from Poland during WWII found in Paris

Handmade in 1719 by Antonio Stradivari, the instrument is one of only 650 Stradivarius violins that have survived to this day.

Polish official calls upon Germany to pay WWII reparations

A Polish deputy foreign minister has called upon the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to start dialogue on reparations for the damage Germany inflicted on Poland during World War Two.

Germany reiterates issue of WWII reparations for Poland is closed

Germany's Federal Foreign Office has said again, in a comment on the details of Poland's recent diplomatic note on reparations for its wartime occupation by Germany, that the topic is a closed issue for the German government.

Mass grave of WWII ‘battle-scarred' German soldiers unearthed alongside their meagre belongings

Archaeologists exhuming the grave in the town of Barborów came across bullet-ridden helmets, broken bones, dog tags, coins, Swastika badges, shoes, a whistle and a chain with a lucky horseshoe.

Poland releases details of trillion-euro war compensation claim

The Polish government has published details of a diplomatic note it sent to Germany demanding EUR 1.32 trillion in compensation for the damage inflicted on Poland during the Second World War.

Poland investigating French president's present to Pope

The Polish Foreign Ministry has launched an inquiry into the history of a book presented to Pope Francis by Emmanuel Macron, the French president.

Macron accused of giving Pope book looted from Poland during WWII

During a private audience, Macron gifted the head of the Church the first French edition of Immanuel Kant's late 18th-century book Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch which some believe may have been looted during WWII.

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