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Members of the Royal British Legion (RBL) have vowed to boycott their local church service this coming Remembrance Sunday after the progressively-minded vicar banned a popular traditional hymn over concerns it could offend.

LONDON (AP) – Ken Wilkinson, one of the last survivors of “The Few” – the band of pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain – has died. He was 99. The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust said Wilkinson died

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – A lawmaker says Poland is looking into demanding reparations from Germany for the massive losses inflicted on Poland during World War II. Arakadiusz Mularczyk, a lawmaker with the ruling Law and Justice party, said Wednesday the

The 72nd anniversary of the end of the European War — well known as ‘VE Day’ in Britain and the United States – passed mostly unnoticed today, but saw solemn commemorations in France where President-Elect Macron joined outgoing premier Hollande in a wreath laying ceremony.

The outsider-businessman senator from Georgia told Breitbart News he opposes attempts in Congress to create a Border Adjustment Tax because it is an unfair shifting of the tax burden onto regular consumers and disrupts America’s nascent economic recovery.

TEL AVIV – An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered between 100,000 – 600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was justified in doing so because Jews had seized all manner of control in Germany, spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as being responsible for the country’s economic collapse.

Photographs, newspapers, coins and books preserved in a Nazi time capsule from around 1934 have been discovered in Poland.

TEL AVIV – Thousands of Israelis opened their living rooms to the public on Wednesday evening, hosting Holocaust survivors who told of their personal experiences on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

TEL AVIV – Former London mayor Ken Livingstone abused the memory of the Holocaust for his own political needs, Israeli MK Merav Michaeli said on Sunday.

A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the “unbearable stench” of burning bodies.

Historic research has unveiled the fact that Germany’s Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, did indeed have only the one functioning testicle. A version of a wartime propaganda song known to British soldiers and generations of schoolchildren alleged that Hitler only had

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has scrapped plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, a former World War Two government minister who supported anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s, after protests from Jewish leaders. The row over honouring

The recent discovery by two men of a Nazi gold train carrying valuable property said to have been looted in World War II has prompted a debate over who has a legal claim to ownership. Now the EU has been pulled into

 The survivors, dead and relatives of the sinking of His Majesty’s Troop Ship Lancastria in 1940 have finally been acknowledged. Standing in for the Prime Minister in Parliament, Chancellor George Osborne addressed the tragedy on Wednesday and said it is still not