Victory Day, Moscow, Putin

Victory Day in Moscow

09.May 2026. KS

Putin: Victory will be ours

Victory Day is celebrated in Moscow more modestly than usual, and what kind of messages did Russian President Vladimir Putin send from the parade

Occasions: Federico Tenca Montini, historian

24.September 2025 Jakov Krsovnik

“I give you a husband, but I don’t give you Trieste”

"Just in the final phase of the 'race for Trieste', from March 1, 1945 until the end of the operations, the Yugoslavs had about 2000 dead and wounded. The amount of weapons is also impressive: 366 cannons, 622 mortars, 80 tanks, howitzers and armored vehicles, and 4184 machine guns and machine guns. The Fourth Army was commanded by General Peko Dapčević, and among the soldiers were also those who would later achieve important careers, such as Milka Planinc and Večeslav Holjevac"

Military parade in Beijing

03.September 2025 NM

What the largest military parade in Chinese history looked like

China is in the center of the world's attention because at nine o'clock Beijing time it held the largest military parade in its history, wanting to demonstrate its strength and show its own army as extremely advanced and capable.

Atomic bombs

06.August 2025 Julian Rial / DW

Hiroshima 80 years later: Children speak for the dead

Eighty years ago today, Hiroshima became a symbol of the most horrific destruction ever wrought by mankind. As the number of survivors dwindles, 12-year-old Shun Sasaki, the great-grandson of the woman who survived the explosion, tells visitors from around the world a story of war, suffering and hope. His mission: to never be forgotten

End of World War II

08.May 2025. Hans Pfeiffer / DW

The soldier who fought the Nazis: Fascism is back again

When he entered the Kaufering camp in 1945, George Lightman was looking for only one face - the face of his father. Instead, he found an inferno: corpses, ashes, and the silence of horror. That image haunts him even today, as he bears witness to his own losses and warns of the return of ideas that once brought the world to the edge of the abyss.

Two sides of European memory

08.May 2025. IN THE

Europe celebrates peace, Russia shows power: The double significance of the great victory

Victory over Fascism Day and Europe Day share the same date, but not the same narrative. While the European Union celebrates the values ​​of cooperation and peace on May 9, Russia organizes a large military parade on the same day, emphasizing its role in winning the Second World War. Different historical foci also reflect today's political differences

The culture of memory

07.May 2025. Milan Milošević

Victory Day in Berlin, 8/9. May 1945

At 4:1 a.m. on May 1945, 1942, Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, the commander of the Eighth Guards Army in the Berlin operation, holder of the Order of Suvorov first degree for his merits in the Battle of Stalingrad (43/30), reported to Marshal Gennady Zhukov that General Krebs, the German Chief of the General Staff, had informed him that Hitler had committed suicide on April 15.50 at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Zhukov calls Moscow and insists that they wake up Stalin, who had just gone to sleep, because "the matter is urgent and cannot wait until morning." Informed of Hitler's suicide, Stalin only says: "Nitkov has finished his game! It is a pity that she was caught alive". Seven days later, a document on Germany's unconditional capitulation was signed in Berlin

The culture of memory

25.December 2024 John Byford

On the trail of a military photograph

We will never know if Werner, while standing at the window of the PRIZAD building with his camera pointed at the Fairgrounds pavilions, even thought for a moment about their new purpose. It is more likely that the Fairground was found by chance in a photograph whose subject was a striking scene of the sunset. And yet, by chance, this ordinary photo - a military souvenir from Belgrade - immortalized a turning point in the history of Belgrade: the moment when the Belgrade Fair became the Semlin Judenlager

Felton (2)

04.December 2024 Dr. Ljubinka Škodrić

I have never seen a cowardly woman in the partisans

Among the most noticeable changes in the population of the occupied European territories during the Second World War was the impact that the occupation had on gender and generational relations and the structure of society. It was a world without grown men, whose roles were taken over by women

Personal attitude

23.October 2024 Maja Stojanović

Where does the walk of the Immortal Regiment lead?

The pro-government media presented the commemoration of the liberation of Belgrade as a magnificent event dedicated to the preservation of anti-fascist values ​​and the historical memory of the fighters against fascism. A special focus was placed on strengthening traditional ties with Russia, while emphasizing friendly relations between Serbia and Russia, thus presenting the event as an act of patriotic unity. All the more so since Aleksandar Vučić, despite Putin's invitation, will not attend the BRICS summit in Kazan

The Holocaust

22.September 2024 Dijana Roscic/DW

The astonishing ignorance of the Germans about the Holocaust, they don't even want to hear about guilt and reparations anymore

The results of a large study on the attitudes of German society towards the history of the 20th century and the Second World War confirm many prejudices of Poles towards Germans: that they know little about Poland, especially about the crimes committed by the Germans during the occupation, and that they do not even want to hear about the guilt anymore and reparations

Eighty years since D-Day: The Normandy landings

Anniversary of Operation Overlord

06.June 2024 Christoph Hasselbach (DW)

Eight decades since D-Day

World leaders and remaining veterans gathered in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the landing of Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy, known as D-Day. Then more than 150.000 Allied troops arrived in France by sea and air to deliver the final blow to Nazi Germany

On this day

08.September 2023 JH

The Capitulation of Italy: From Defeated to Victorious

Italy capitulated 80 years ago today. It was one of the turning points of the Second World War. The Germans took control of the country. Mussolini was arrested, then released. In less than two years, Italy managed to go from being a member of the Axis Powers to being among the winners

The culture of memory

28.June 2023 Filip Mirilović

The past as needed by the present

Representations of the past are never only about the past, so monuments tell us what it is that should be remembered and in what way, who are "our" heroes, what are the values ​​behind which society should stand, what should we strive for, who are we We, and who are the Others?

I remember

09.June 2023 Ivan Ivanji

Naive illusions: Socialism was far away

Wolfgang Leonhard's illusion of communism as a happy proletarian of all countries did not last long. As the director of the high political school of the German Democratic Republic, he had access to the world media, he knew what was happening, he understood that there was nothing to achieve his ideals under Stalin. He defected to Yugoslavia, then went to West Germany