World War II

Since the beginning of the full-scale war which is being conducted by Russia, dozens of Ukrainian people have been forced to flee their homes, to save their lives. It is not an easy task for them to adapt in other European countries as they face difficulties such as foreign languages, inability to g...

Is there opposition in Russia? Do Russian people support the war? Are liberal ideas popular only in Moscow and a few other large cities: myth or reality? Why did Putin’s regime decide to kill Nemtsov and imprison Navalny? You will hear answers to these and many other questions in Delfi’s interview w...

Iš aštuonių skirtingų nuotraukų sumontuotas koliažas, kuriame įvardyti visi nacistinėje Vokietijoje aukštas pareigas užėmę, o vėliau prisidėję prie NATO kūrimo ir vystymo, vyrai sulaukė socialinių tinklų vartotojų dėmesio. Daugiausia šia nuotrauka dalinosi prorusiškas pažiūras skleidžiančios anketos...

With the outbreak of World War II, Germany started a coherent and deliberate campaign of erasing Poland from the map of Europe. The Polish nation was to be deprived of its intellectual elites, identity, and sovereignty. Destruction and plundering did not spare Polish culture. Literature, music, film...

Украинские города и села, захваченные или осажденные российскими военными, просят о помощи. Кроме ужасов обстрелов, люди уже столкнулись с голодом и холодом. В некоторых населенных пунктах нет воды, отопления и света.

В социальных сетях распространяется текст, авторы которого утверждают, что в 1941 году на СССР напала не Германия, а “гитлеровский” Евросоюз, и пытаются возложить вину за начало Второй мировой войны и преступления нацистов на европейские страны. Мы проверили утверждения авторов материала и наш верди...

On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Presidents of the Baltic States Gitanas Nausėda, Egils Levits and Kersti Kaljulaid signed a joint statement where they paid tribute to all victims of World War II and urged the world leaders to reject efforts to rewrite history.

The genocide of the Jewish people is a scar on Lithuania and the whole humanity's face, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said during an event held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has urged to refrain from attempts to reinterpret the consequences of World War II, especially regarding the sufferings and losses of the Jewish nation.

Lithuania's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis on Thursday called on the US e-commerce giant Amazon to stop selling Soviet-themed products.

It may sound unexpected, but war is a key driver of the technological advancement,” says associate professor Andrius Ušinskas from the Department of Electronic Systems at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU). Recently, the researcher participated in a project on secret communication technol...

Jan Zwartendijk, the director of Philips in Lithuania and the honorary consul for the Netherlands signed visas for Curaçao to save the lives of more than 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during WW2.

Lithuanian diplomats expressed their protest to a representative of the Russian Embassy on Thursday over Russia's decision to mark the takeover of Vilnius and Kaunas during WWII with artillery salutes.

The remains of around 700 World War II victims might be buried in the territory of Lithuania's Air Base in Siauliai, the Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday.

Celebrating the end of World War II on May 9 is not a good thing to do, as the day in 1945 did not bring freedom to Lithuania or Poland, says Poland's new Ambassador to Lithuania Urszula Doroszewska.

The narrative about the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945) is still important for Russia's inhabitants. Russian sociologist Lev Gudkov observed that this historical event is on the top in the mass consciousness of Russian society. It nothing unusual that modern Kremlin propaganda uses it for its own pu...

Lithuania's ambassador has rejected Russia's reproaches on historical memory, emphasizing at an international diplomatic forum that the guerrilla resistance to Soviet occupation after World War II was legitimate.

The massacre base established during World War II by the Nazi Germany in Paneriai just outside Vilnius was three times the size of the current memorial, Lithuanian historians have established.