‘The spirit of resistance’: De Gaulle biopic turns into surprise hit for France’s younger viewers
La Bataille de Gaulle is adapted from the 2018 biography A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson. Photograph: TCD/Prod.DB/AlamyView…
Nazi shipwrecks emerge from the depths as Europe’s Danube dries up
The wreckage of a Nazi warship has become visible above the exceptionally low water line on the Danube near Prahovo…
Himmler’s ‘anti-Nazi’ masseur: exposing the lies and fantasies of the SS chief’s ‘magic Buddha’
Martin Müller as Heinrich Himmler (left) and Claes Bang as Felix Kersten in I Is Another. Photograph: Anke Neugebauer/©Anke Neugebauer…
‘I never mentioned it for 25 years. I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo on horror, anger and forgiveness
Koko Kondo at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in June. Photograph: Aya Fujioka/The GuardianView image in fullscreenKoko Kondo at the…
‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima
The aftermath of the explosion in Hiroshima, 6 August 1945. Photograph: Anonymous/APView image in fullscreenThe aftermath of the explosion in…
‘Overdue reunion’: aviation hero’s long lost granddaughter uncovers secret past
Arthur Whitten Brown, left, and John Alcock in 1919. The pair completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight that year. Photograph:…