Around 150 former services personnel travel to France to attend ceremony at Bayeux cathedral and visit five invasion beaches.
D-day veterans at the service of remembrance at Bayeux War Cemetery in Normandy on Saturday
Around 150 British veterans have...
British veterans commemorate 71st D-day anniversary in Normandy
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71 ans après le Débarquement, les témoignages des vétérans sont toujours aussi glaçants
«Ceux qui disent qu’ils n’avaient pas peur sont des menteurs.»
Des soldats américains débarquent à Omaha Beach pendant le Débarquement près de Vierville-sur-Mer, le 6 juin 1944
Donn French se souviendra à jamais de 6 juin 1944, date du Débarquement sur...
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MacNeil Flora
Flora MacNeil (6 October 1928 – 15 May 2015) was a Scottish Gaelic singer. Originally discovered by Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson during the early 1950s, she continued to perform into her later years.
MacNeil was born in 1928 on the island of Barra,...
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Peter Howell obituary
Actor of stage and screen who featured in Emergency – Ward 10, The Prisoner and the 1979 film Scum.
Peter Howell as Mr Justice Lazenby in an episode of the TV series Crown Court in 1983
A stage and screen character actor for more than half a century,...
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Howell Peter
Peter Howell, né en 1919 à Londres, et mort le 20 avril 2015 est un acteur britannique.
Filmographie 1987 : Bellman and True de Richard Loncraine 1993 : Les Ombres du cœur de Richard Attenborough 2004 : Rochester, le dernier des libertins de Laurence...
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93-year-old German woman suspected of being Belsen SS guard
Hilde Michnia is also alleged to have forced prisoners on an evacuation march at Gross-Rosen in 1945 when 1,400 women died.
Flames and smoke rising from huts at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945, after liberation by British troops
German...
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Doyle Rex
Born : 1935 in England, UK and died : May 15, 2015 (age 80) in England, UK.
Rex Doyle was born in 1935 in England. He was an actor, known for Beg! (1994), The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Bean (1989) and Mr Bean: The Library (1990). He was married to Sandra...
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Appleton Jay
Jay Appleton (1919 - 27 April 2015) was a British geographer who proposed 'habitat theory' and advanced the notion of 'prospect-refuge'.
Jay was born in Yorkshire in December 1919. He moved to Stibbard, near Fakenham in Norfolk, at the age of eighteen...
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Trevelyan Raleigh
Walter Raleigh Trevelyan (6 July 1923 – 23 October 2014) was an author, editor, and publisher and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He resided in both Shepherd Market, London and Cornwall. His Spanish partner Raúl Balín died in 2004.
Raleigh...
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Kono Yohei
Yohei Kōno (born 15 January 1937 in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese politician and a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from November 2003 until August 2009, when the LDP lost its majority in...
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Watanuki Tamisuke
Tamisuke Watanuki (born 30 April 1927) is a Japanese politician from the Toyama Prefecture. He started his own export-import company at age 28.
He graduated from the Department of Economics at Keio University and ran for the Prefectural Assembly in 1959....
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Komura Masahiko
Masahiko Kōmura (born 15 March 1942) is a Japanese politician, and the current Vice-President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2007 to 2008, and he is a member of the House of...
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Hata Tsutomu
Tsutomu Hata (born 24 August 1935) is a Japanese politician and was the 80th Prime Minister of Japan for 9 weeks in 1994. He was a member of the lower house representing Nagano #3 district. He was elected 14 times, retiring in 2012.
He was born in Tokyo,...
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Kakizawa Koji
Koji Kakizawa (November 26, 1933 - January 27, 2009) was a Japanese politician who served as Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1994. After his death, he had been conferred as Junior Third Rank, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.
After...
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Bertolucci Bernardo
Bernardo Bertolucci, né le 16 mars 1941 à Casarola dans la province de Parme en Italie, est un scénariste et réalisateur italien.
Fils d'Attilio Bertolucci, poète et critique de cinéma, Bernardo Bertolucci se voit offrir à l'âge de quinze ans une caméra...
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Le Trésor de Tarzan
Le Trésor de Tarzan (Tarzan's Secret Treasure) est un film américain réalisé par Richard Thorpe, sorti en 1941. Une nuit, Boy, le fils de Tarzan, quitte la demeure familiale, perdue dans la jungle, pour aller découvrir le monde civilisé dont lui a si...
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Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD
Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes oder Befehlshaber der SiPo und des SD, kurz BdS, waren vom Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) in von den Nationalsozialisten besetzten Gebieten eingesetzte Leiter einer Art RSHA-Außenstelle....
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Schwarzhüber Johann
Johann Schwarzhuber ( 29. August 1904 in Tutzing, Oberbayern ; 3. Mai 1947 in Hameln) war ein deutscher SS-Obersturmführer (1944) und Schutzhaftlagerführer des Männerlagers im KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau .
Der gelernte Buchdrucker Schwarzhuber, seit 1936 verheiratet...
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Neubacher Hermann
Hermann Neubacher (June 24, 1893 – July 1, 1960) was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich.
During the Second World War, he was appointed as the leading German foreign ministry official for the Balkans (including...
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Des aquarelles d'Hitler aux enchères
Quatorze aquarelles et dessins réalisés par Adolf Hitler il y a une centaine d'années vont être proposés aux enchères entre 1.000 et 45.000 euros lors d'une vente en Allemagne du 18 et 20 juin, a annoncé la maison Weidler aujourd'hui.
Une aquarelle représentant...
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