Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp during World War II.
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Celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Victory in Japan (VJ) Day include a fly-past by jets from Britain’s Red Arrows air force display team over the capitals of the four nations in the United Kingdom – Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and London.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the family of Pa Adama Aduku, the oldest surviving soldier of the Nigerian Army and World War II veteran, who passed on at 101.
Early in the day, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead but did not visit out of apparent consideration for ties with South Korea and China.
The work to defuse the British bomb meant that buildings within a 1.5-kilometre radius had to be evacuated.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
“We will no longer be able to resolve these fates,’’ Thomas Huber, head of the Red Cross’s tracing service, said in Munich.
The 250-kilogramme U.S. aerial bomb was found on Monday on the grounds of a bank opposite the city’s main train station, resulting in the cancellation of rail and public transport services during the peak-hour period.
The pontiff led a service on Thursday at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery of Nettuno, about 60 kilometres south of Rome and was later due to pray at the Fosse Ardeatine memorial in the southern Rome.
The bomb was discovered near south-west Berlin’s Innsbruecker Platz square on Monday, prompting authorities to cordon off the area within a 500m radius and evacuate people in the surrounding residential buildings and patients in a home for the elderly.
A police spokesman said officers were checking houses within the exclusion zone on Tuesday to make sure no residents were still at home before work proceeds to dispose off the bomb discovered the day before.
Police had said everyone must be out of the marked clearance area, which comprises large parts of the city centre, by 10am
Kalashnikov, who was in his 20s when he created the AK-47 just after World War II, died in his home city of Izhevsk near the Ural Mountains in Russia, where his gun is still made