US Navy finds wreckage of World War 2 warship USS Indianapolis 72 years after it sank

The vessel was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, and it sank in just 12 minutes.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 20, 2017 · 11:25 am

Dunkirk was a humiliating military defeat but still ended up as a victory for British morale

Operation Dynamo came to represent British resilience, but it came at a terrible cost.

Gerard Oram,The Conversation

· Jul 23, 2017 · 08:30 pm

The Dunkirk evacuation on film before Christopher Nolan landed there

The historic British operation finally gets the big-budget Hollywood treatment.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jul 17, 2017 · 08:15 am

Ghost ships: Why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?

Sunken World War II warships, the final resting place for thousands of sailors, have been disappearing in Indonesia.

Natali Pearson, The Conversation

· Feb 28, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Let action in Holocaust memorials open a discussion, instead of shaming

Visitors know they have to 'act sad'. After walking in the memorial, German visitors often say, 'maybe this is how the Jews felt'.

Irit Dekel, The Conversation

· Jan 27, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to Nazis, but discovered by chance, say researchers

The Amsterdam museum dedicated to the Holocaust diarist said her safe house might have been raided over a ration fraud.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 17, 2016 · 09:24 am

The link between uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A story of twin tragedies

The mine that produced the uranium that made the Hiroshima bomb has since been closed.

Susan Williams, The Conversation

· Aug 29, 2016 · 03:30 pm

94-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard goes on trial in Germany

Reinhold Hanning is charged with being an accessory to the murder of at least 1,70,000 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 11, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Building Hitler's supergun: the plot to destroy London and why it failed

Hitler's plan for a weapon that would outgun the allies was doomed – but one engineer has been trying to find out how it worked.

Hugh Hunt, The Conversation

· Nov 24, 2015 · 09:30 pm

How battles in India's northeast influenced the course of World War II

Today is the 70th anniversary of the Battles of Imphal and Kohima, a turning point in World War II, and the Indian freedom movement.

Brij Tankha

· Jun 28, 2014 · 07:33 am