#world-war-ii

In 1945, a British submarine sank Nazi U-864 off Norway; 81 years later, authorities recovered 22 mercury containers from a wreck believed to have carried as much as 67 tons of mercury

Norwegian authorities are grappling with a serious mercury contamination issue stemming from the sunken U-864 submarine, which met its fate during World War II. Recent investigations discovered leaking mercury containers, prompting worries about environmental…

UK must face an inconvenient truth. Russia is already at war with Britain - and has been for four years

While in Norway, I spent some time reading about the country's experience during the Second World War. When Nazi troops arrived, Norway simply did not have the means to repulse them.

India recalls World War II sacrifices , peacekeeping contributions at UN , backs multilateralism

Poland’s admirable post-communist success has a moral gap

Economically, Poland has made a spectacular recovery from communism, but it still hasn’t recovered from the worst of its WWII values.

Nation-Building and Imperialism: Education as a Tool of the Centralized State

Abstract This article examines Japanese history from the Meiji Era to the end of World War II as a case study to illustrate different modalities in which education can be utilized as a tool of the state from establishing national identity to exerting imperial…