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Japan marks 70 years since Hiroshima bombing

Teilnehmer der Genkzeremonie anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages des Atombombenabwurfs von Hiroshima beten für die Opfer (Foto: dpa)

Japan has commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, and used the occasion to call for the abolition of nuclear arms. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui called nuclear weapons "an absolute evil." 

Japan's lower house approves expanded military  

What Japan's defense policy revision means  

A Hiroshima survivor shares her memories  

'No consensus' in Japan about wartime past

Bildergalerie chinesisch-japanische Beziehungen Zweiter Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged Japan to mend post-war ties with its Asian neighbors. Professor Ian Buruma talks to DW about the differences in how the Japanese and Germans perceive their wartime guilt. 

Page in Anne Frank's diary, Copyright: picture-alliance/dpa

Japanese retain fascination with Anne Frank

Anne Frank, the young girl who kept a journal about hiding from the Nazis, captured hearts all over the world - and in Japan in particular. Seventy years after the war, she remains a touchstone for young Japanese. 

a rose at the site of Buchenwald

Days of remembrance

Seventy years ago, World War II came to an end, at least in Europe. DW takes a look at the events of 1945. 

Copyright: DW / Maksim Nelioubin

A liberating defeat: Berlin and the end of World War II

History buff Jefferson Chase retraces the stations of Nazi Germany's bloody demise. 

Werner Krokowski's family

What Germany's post-war refugees taught us about integration

After World War II, 12 million refugees came to Germany - a country that was in tatters and hardly had any food. They can teach us a lot about how to integrate, and what newcomers need. 

End of WWII: 'Entire families committed suicide'

Desillusioned and scared, hundreds of Germans took their own lives on May 8, 1945. Author Florian Huber explains why the largest mass suicide in German history has remained relatively unknown. 

women and wheelbarrow full of rubble

Dismantling a German myth

A German historian dismantles the myth of the ever-present cheerful post-war rubble-clearing woman. 

Deutschland Zweiter Weltkrieg Zusammentreffen von US-Armee und Roter Armee in Torgau an der Elbe

Post-WWII rapes

Historians say 400,000 children were fathered by troops of the four allied powers that occupied Germany after WWII. 

Skulptur über der Außenmauer der KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau

'Never Again': Memorials of terror

When World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945, Germany started the process of coming to terms with the Nazi dictatorship and its crimes. Memorials across the country ensure the millions of victims are not forgotten. 

Hiroshima after the atom bomb explosion. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images) 06 Aug 1945

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The US attacks on two Japanese cities in 1945 are the only instances nuclear weapons have been used in war. People around the world remember the consequences of the bombings that ended the war. 

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A Hiroshima survivor shares her memories

Hiroshima survivor shares harrowing memories on a visit to Berlin. 

Africa in World War II: the forgotten veterans

African soldiers in Burma with a copy of President Truman's proclamation of peace in Europe

More than a million African soldiers fought for colonial powers in World War II. Few of them understood why. Survivors received little compensation and veterans are calling for recognition of their rights. 

Allied Invasion of Germany 1945

May 8, 1945

For 70 years Germans have agonized over the war, its origins and its end - and the question of German guilt. 

Churchill, Truman, Stalin shaking hands

Potsdam Conference

Seventy years ago, the most powerful men in the world met to discuss Germany's future. 

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Rahel Mann: Hidden from the Holocaust

When the Nazis capitulated her in the spring of 1945, seven-year-old Rahel Mann emerged from the cellar in which she had been hiding for months. Carolina Machhaus tells Rahel's story. 

Comics by Jacques Tardi, Copyright: picture-alliance/dpa/D. Karmann

War in comics

French author Jacques Tardi has published a graphic novel featuring his father's return home after the war. 

70 Jahre Kriegsende - Fotos des 2. Zeitzeugen

Witness to history

After months of trekking through France, a 19-year-old soldier ended up in a POW camp. He says he was lucky. 

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Berlin - Jewish History Tour

Berlin attracts a growing number of Israeli tourists, many coming to revisit the locations that define the city’s Jewish heritage.