From Rasputin to Putin: Why Russia will never learn from its history
Antony Beevor says Rasputin was a historically important figure who accelerated the demise of the Romanov dynasty
Second World War
No reservation: John Mulqueen on a Dublin restaurant that set the standard for fine dining
It was once dubbed one of Europe’s best by Vogue magazine
Donald Trump’s threat to bomb Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages’ resonates profoundly in Japan
Long history of bloody US bombing campaigns began over Japanese cities during second World War
This German thinker sounded an alarm about the EU and the US – are we ready to listen?
Jürgen Habermas insisted that ‘rearmament is the existential self-assertion of an EU that can no longer count on the protection of the US’
Donald Trump is like a child pulling the wings off flies – all means and no end
We are seeing something new in human history: the relishing of annihilation as entertainment
134 Irishmen killed at sea added to official roll of second World War fatalities
Recognition by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission followed years of lobbying by the In From the Cold Project
Four stories that Albert Camus might choose to tell if he were alive today
Author’s speech 80 years ago, on how ideology is used to excuse or celebrate death, feels suddenly current
The Irish airman who survived one of the most dangerous jobs of the second World War
O’Dwyer and his colleagues were on the front line of an intelligence war
Jürgen Habermas lived to see a return of the fascist ghosts he once helped exorcise
The German philosopher, who has died aged 96, was young enough to carry no culpability for the Nazi era yet old enough to carry lifelong scars
Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96
German chancellor Friedrich Merz described him as ‘one of the most significant thinkers of our time’
Hotel Exile by Jane Rogoyska: Moving account of ordinary folk caught in second World War
Rogoyska's Hotel Exile opens in 1933 as German undesirables flee west from the Nazi scourge
The last letters of Europe’s lost Jewish communities
From a barracks in Mechelen, thousands of Belgium’s Jews were sent on trains to Auschwitz during the second World War
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’
Four years on, Ukrainians no longer believe in anything but the weapons they carry
Idea of just peace, war crimes trials and reparations has fallen by wayside
Europe ponders its future: embrace an ally, submit to a bully or go it alone?
The world came to the Munich Security Conference over the weekend for an ideological showdown
Auschwitz survivor warns German parliament of anti-Semitism ‘epidemic’
Tova Friedman, who survived a Nazi death camp as a child, urges Bundestag to confront rising hatred
An Auschwitz survivor’s plea: Remain watchful because Holocaust denial is gaining ground
On the 81st anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, Leon Weintraub has a blunt warning
Taoiseach criticises ‘shocking’ level of ignorance about Holocaust
Department of Education working on plans to ensure schoolchildren are educated about the murder of six million Jews in second World War
Irish ignorance about the Holocaust isn’t new but social media has supercharged it
Instead of censorship, we have an abundance of distortion, lies and denial, as history, or what purports to be history, is weaponised
Josef Veselsky: Holocaust survivor, skilled table tennis player and Ireland’s oldest man
Participant in Slovak uprising against Nazis forged a successful career in Irish business, importing Swiss watches and Japanese pearls
Alexandre Kojève, An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys: alternative world visions
Beyond his notorious ‘end of history’ thesis, the views of the Russian-born philosopher changed considerably over his life
Would the fighting spirit that defeated the Nazis be possible now? You’d have to worry
This century the closest we’ve had to a wartime footing in Ireland has been the Covid pandemic - and while it did have a unifying effect for a time, it also seemed to unleash something
Thalidomide: A shock finding in the Irish State archives
Department of Health papers refer to concentration camp scientist who helped develop German drug linked to birth defects worldwide
Ukrainian arms behemoth crumbles as drone makers rise to wartime challenge
Dnipro’s vast Pivdenmash missile plant badly damaged by Russian strikes and decades of neglect
Chief Rabbi: Move to erase Chaim Herzog’s name and history is cruel hammer blow
Dublin’s Herzog Park, named after the former Israeli president, is marker of Ireland’s Jewish history
A ‘cog’ in the Nazi engine: Why the story of chancellor Friedrich Merz’s grandfather matters
Might Merz, by sharing his family history and encouraging others to engage with their family past, help prevent Germany from sliding again into political extremism?
Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’
The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza
When Nazism went on trial: the Irish journalist in the room at Nuremberg
Eighty years ago reporter Seaghan Maynes took his seat just yards from Hermann Göring. His dispatches captured the drama, tedium and moral reckoning of the trial that shaped international justice
Driving Japan’s comeback: Can its carmakers reignite a nation’s lost innovation?
Toyota, Honda and Mazda race to rediscover inventive spark that once defined the country
Will ‘no’ be enough to curb Turkey’s latest claims over Greek territory?
Greece Letter: Turkey’s Blue Homeland project envisages a widening of its EEZ to take in many Greek islands
‘We will not accept their erasure’: Dublin-based gallerist reclaims his family’s Holocaust story
Oliver Sears returns to Łodz with an exhibition honouring his murdered grandfather – and confronting Poland’s uneasy memory of its vanished Jewish community
A budget with barely a mention of universal healthcare
Waiting lists for surgeries, scans and disability assessments remain scandalously long
Dark cloud hangs over UN headquarters as leaders gather for ‘World Cup of Diplomacy’
Irish delegation to push Government stance on Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan crisis at General Assembly
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