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Planned memorial aims at ‘dignified remembrance’ of women of St Pauli detained as perverts under the NazisSex workers in Hamburg’s historic red-light district who were persecuted under Adolf Hitler are to get their own memorial at Herbertstraße, a notorious street in Germany’s second city still blocked off to all but sex workers and their clients.Few people, even residents, know that it was the Nazis...

Hundreds of Engelandvaarders took various routes from occupied Netherlands to Britain to fight in second world warThey travelled over land and water, braving the North Sea, trekking across the Pyrenees or fleeing north through Sweden to reach Britain and join the fight against the Nazis.Now a project at the Dutch national archives, opening on Thursday, is for the first time publishing the stories of...

Images taken secretly some 80 years ago are being published for the first time to mark International Holocaust Remembrance DayA remarkable series of photographs of Jewish families being forced to leave their homes in Germany in the middle of the second world war has been published for the first time, following a chance discovery.The images are a striking new testament to the sudden upheaval...