Latest World War 2 stories on ABC North Qld

 

Latest World War 2 stories on ABC Online

 
  • Gabriela's grandfather recalls the pain of Poland's past.
    It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...Photo icon
    Thursday 26 August 2010
  • Gabriela's grandfather recalls the pain of Poland's past.
    It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...Photo iconVideo icon
    Wednesday 1 September 2010
  • This year is the 70th anniversary of the voyage of the HMT Dunera, a ship that sailed between England and Australia during WWII and which was to become infamous for the mistreatment of its human cargo -- over two thousand internees who were mostly fleeing Nazism in Europe. To mark the anniversary, ...
    Tuesday 17 August 2010
  • Proudly they stand to attention.
    The 70th anniversary of World War II "Albury's Own" 2/23rd battalion....Photo iconAudio icon
    Thursday 26 August 2010
  • Marie Armstrong began her long stage career as a ringleted, Shirley Temple look-alike but went on to become a member of Sydney's popular and notorious New Theatre. During the iciest days of the Cold War some called the New Theatre a front for the Communist party. Marie, like many others to come, ...
    Monday 19 July 2010