World War 2

Seeking to learn the origins of a violin built by a mastercraftsman with cheap materials, a repairman opens up the instrument to discover a note left by its creator imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp.

Leni Riefenstahl made some of the Nazis' most notorious propaganda films, but denied any knowledge of the Holocaust until the day she died. This documentary tries to find the truth, and help us understand the rise of fascism today.

The heckling at Melbourne’s Anzac Day service mirrors the long, quiet and painful exclusion of Black diggers from the national conversation.

Geraldton and surrounds played a critical role in Australia's defence in World War II and that is still the case today.

A World War II bomber pilot from Sydney reflects on his teary reunion with his mother, the Normandy landing and life after the war for Anzac Day 2025.

Like holding a minute's silence and playing the Last Post, Anzac biscuits are a big part of the national day of remembrance for many. 

The number of veterans who fought in World War II is thinning, but those who remain remember it clearly. One of them is Sydney centenarian Bill Purdy.

Stan Gratte took up photography as a boy during World War II, recording Geraldton as a garrison town.

Bill Purdy was deployed to Allied Bomber Command and flew missions over Nazi-controlled territory in a Lancaster Bomber.

In the dense jungle of New Guinea, April 1944, a patrol of American troops with vital military intel were surrounded by enemy troops when their radios stopped working.

As 94-year-old Australian war veteran Patrick Forbes prepares for his final Anzac Day march, he reflects back on his family's history of service which saw three members awarded the distinguished Military Cross. 

The Hollywood star plays a POW in the much-anticipated screen adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker-Prize-winning novel, Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Tributes are paid to Arthur Leggett, WA's oldest surviving World War II prisoner of war who was captured by Germans during the Battle of Crete in 1941, after he passed away in an aged care home.

Michael McCormack says images in a country NSW shop window depicting himself, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart as Nazis are "vile" and "abhorrent".

Donald Trump's sudden shift on Ukraine has come as a massive shock to most countries in America's orbit. European leaders who have long banked their national security on US military protection are beginning to lose confidence in their most powerful ally. Last month the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that his priority was to "strengthen Europe" and become independent of the US and other Europe countries are following suit. But there is one American ally that has been planning for this potential eventuality for decades.

Trains have been cancelled to and from Paris following the discovery of a World War II bomb. 

The medals had been missing for decades until an eagle-eyed RAAF chaplain came across them at an auction. 

Rose Girone, the woman believed to be the oldest known Holocaust survivor, has died, her family has confirmed. 

German police have arrested a suspect in a stabbing at Berlin's Holocaust memorial that left a man seriously injured.

Eighty-three years after the bombing of Darwin — the largest attack carried out by a foreign power on Australian soil — experts say the event marked a turning point in Australia's alliance with the United States.