WORLD WAR II IN THE NEWS

D-DAY

CHINA

•   "Japan Shrine Visit Angers China," BBC News (August 15, 2004).

•   "Chinese Riot After Japan Victory," BBC News (August 7, 2004).

•   "WW II Bombs Unearthed In China," BBC News (June 19, 2004).

•   "Asian Alarm At Japan Mission," BBC News (January 20, 2004).

•   "Toyota Apologises For China Ads," BBC News (December 5, 2003).

•   "Chiang Kai-Shek's Widow Dies," BBC News (October 24, 2003).

•   "China Hotel 'Orgy' Sparks Fury," BBC News (September 28, 2003).

•   "China Nets Million Japan Protests," BBC News (September 18, 2003).

• "Anti-Japan Protests Worry China," BBC News (September 18, 2003).

• "The Veto And How To Use It," BBC News (September 17, 2003).

•   "Taiwan Divided Over Chiang's Memory," BBC News (March 11, 2003).

FRANCE

•   "WW II Remains Exhumed In France," BBC News (November 4, 2003).

•   "French Resistance Hero Dies At 94," BBC News (September 9, 2002).

•   "France Counts Cost of Nazi Era," BBC News (April 17, 2000).

•   "French Wrestle With DeGaulle's Legacy," BBC News (April 15, 2002).

• "Le Pen Barred From Laying Wreath At Resistance Memorial," BBC News (November 29, 1997).

GREAT BRITAIN

•   "Peace Cross Returned To Cathedral," BBC News (September 25, 2004).

•   "Black Veterans' War Role Highlighted," BBC News (May 11, 2004).

•   "BATTLE OF BRITAIN DEATHS REMEMBERED," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 15, 2003.

• MICHAEL COCKERELL, "DON'T MENTION THE WAR," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 12, 2003.

• "SOLDIERS' SEARCH FOR BURIED BUGLES." BBC NEWS, MARCH 27, 2003.

• "MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS 1942," BBC NEWS, DECEMBER 24, 2002.

• "THE MAKING OF THE GATHERING STORM," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 23, 2002.

• "D-DAY VILLAGE MARKS 400 YEARS," BBC NEWS, MARCH 10, 2002.

• "SINGAPORE VETERANS REMEMBERED," BBC NEWS, FEBRUARY 7, 2002.

• "MEMORIAL HONOURS RAILWAY POWS," BBC NEWS, AUGUST 18, 2001.

•   "BATTLE OF BRITAIN FOES REUNITED," BBC NEWS, MAY 23, 2001.

• "POWS TO RECEIVE 'DEBT OF HONOUR,'" BBC NEWS, NOVEMBER 7, 2000.

•   "BATTLE OF BRITAIN SPECTACULARLY RECALLED," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 17, 2000.

• "THE FEW FORGOTTEN BY THE MANY," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 15, 2000.

• "GERMANY 'SHOULD COMPENSATE BLITZ VICTIMS,'" BBC  NEWS, DECEMBER 13, 1999.

• "THE DAY THE WAR BEGAN," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 7, 1999.

• "A GROWING SENSE OF GLOOM," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 1, 1999.

• "AIRBORNE THREAT OF NAZI PIGEONS," BBC NEWS, JANUARY 27, 1999.

Winston Churchill

• "DAUGHTER SCOTCHES CHURCHILL PARROT CLAIM," BBC NEWS, JANUARY 21, 2004.

•   "WINSTON'S OBSCENE PARROT LIVES ON," BBC NEWS, JANUARY 19, 2004.

• "CHURCHILL IN 'WAR CRIMES' ROW," BBC NEWS, NOVEMBER 30, 2002.

• "CUBA REMEMBERS CHURCHILL LEGACY," BBC NEWS, NOVEMBER 30, 2002.

•   "CHURCHILL VOTED GREATEST BRITON," BBC NEWS, NOVEMBER 24, 2002.

•   "CHURCHILL GRAFFITI MAN JAILED," BBC NEWS, MAY 9, 2000.

KOREA

THE LOW COUNTRIES

• "OUTRAGE OVER COMPENSATION FOR BELGIAN COLLABORATORS," BBC NEWS, NOVEMBER 26, 1999.

PHILIPPINES

POLAND

•   "GERMANS AND POLES SETTLE WW II ROW," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 27, 2004.

•   "WARSAW'S FAILED UPRISING STILL DIVIDES," BBC NEWS, AUGUST 2, 2004.

• "PRESS EMOTION AT WARSAW ANNIVERSARY," BBC NEWS, AUGUST 2, 2004.

•   "WARSAW STOPS TO REMEMBER," BBC NEWS, AUGUST 1, 2004.

•   "POLES MARK 1944 WARSAW UPRISING," BBC NEWS, AUGUST 1, 2004.

• "BITTER LEGACY OF WAR," BBC NEWS, DECEMBER 7, 2002.

• "STALIN'S POLISH VICTIMS MOURNED," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 3, 2000.

• "IN PICTURES: REMEMBERING KATYN MASSACRE," BBC NEWS, JULY 28, 2000.

• "POLAND REMEMBERS KATYN DEAD," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 17, 1999.

• "POLISH INVASION REMEMBERED," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 1, 1999.

RUSSIA

•   "Charles Honours War Dead," BBC News (July 14, 2003).

•   "The Man Who Really Beat Hitler," BBC News (May 9, 2003).

•   "BITTER MEMORIES OF STALINGRAD," BBC NEWS, FEBRUARY 3, 2003.

•   "RUSSIA MARKS BATTLE OF STALINGRAD," BBC NEWS, FEBRUARY 2, 2003.

•   "Crimean Tatars Mark Wartime Deportations," BBC News (May 18, 2002).

•   "Red Army Rapists Exposed," BBC News (April 29, 2002).

•   "THE NEW BATTLE FOR 'STALINGRAD,'" BBC NEWS, JANUARY 3, 2002.

•   "Russians Remember Nazi Invasion," BBC News (June 22, 2001).

•   "Stalin's Polish Victims Mourned," BBC News (September 3, 2000).

•   "The Great Patriotic War: 55 Years On," BBC News (May 12, 2000).

• "BATTLE OF STALINGRAD -- 55 YEARS ON," BBC NEWS, FEBRUARY 2, 1998.

FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS

• "ESTONIA REMOVES SS MONUMENT," BBC NEWS, JULY 24, 2002.

• "RUSSIA CONDEMNS MARCH BY THE VETERANS OF THE LATVIAN NAZI SS LEGION," BBC NEWS, MARCH 16, 1999.

SCANDINAVIA

• Andrew Osborn, "Documentary Forces Danes To Confront Past," Guardian Unlimited (February 9, 2003).

• "Danish PM In Nazi Row," BBC News (August 29, 2003).

• "BERGMAN ADMITS NAZI PAST," BBC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 7, 1999.

UNITED STATES

•   "PLUS CA CHANGE IN FRANCO-US TIES," BBC NEWS, JULY 22, 2003.

•  "SINKING ARIZONA CENTER MAY HAVE TO BE REBUILT," HONOLULU ADVERTISER, JULY 22, 2003.

• "INTERNMENT CAMP UNDERGOING RENOVATIONS TO SERVE AS A REMINDER," MACON TELEGRAPH, JUNE 18, 2003.

• RON BRILEY, "STOP WITH THE WORLD WAR II ANALOGIES ALREADY," HISTORY NEWS NETWORK, APRIL 11, 2003.

• "INTERNMENT MEMORIES SPUR FEARS," SACRAMENTO BEE, MARCH 19, 2003.

• "LAWMAKER'S DEFENSE OF INTERNMENT CALLED 'PREPOSTEROUS' AND 'IGNORANT,'" MERCURY NEWS, FEBRUARY 6, 2003.

• "SPIRIT OF D-DAY LIVES ON, BUSH TELLS FRENCH," GUARDIAN, MAY 28, 2002.

• "BUSH HONORS DEAD AT D-DAY CEREMONY," WASHINGTON POST, MAY 28, 2002.

• "THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS: 60 YEARS LATER," GULF NEWS, FEBRUARY 17, 2002.

•   "SPECIAL REPORT: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT," ASIA SOURCE, OCTOBER 17, 2001. [This has many useful links to other news stories and information]

• "QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: THE LEGACY OF THE INTERNMENT CAMPS," NEWSWEEK, OCTOBER 17, 2001.

• "WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL APPROVED FOR WASHINGTON," WASHINGTON POST, MAY 23, 2001.

• "BUSH BACKS WAR MEMORIAL," WASHINGTON POST, MAY 17, 2001.

• ""WW II MEMORIAL'S SITE IN MIDDLE OF MALL IS UNDER ATTACK," WASHINGTON POST, JUNE 6, 2000.

• "A SON, HIS DYING FATHER, AND THE MAN WHO DROPPED THE BOMB," CNN, JUNE 6, 2000.

• "56 YEARS LATER, NATIONAL D-DAY MUSEUM OPENS," CNN, JUNE 6, 2000.

• "'A FAMILY PORTRAIT OF THE GREATEST GENERATION: BROKAW SHARES THE STORIES OF A GENERATION OF HEROES," CNN, JANUARY 20, 1999.

MISCELLANEOUS COUNTRIES

• "Veterans Remember Monte Cassino," BBC News (May 17, 2004).

• "Stalin Loses Budapest Citizenship," BBC News (April 30, 2004).

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS STORIES