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Two German researchers claim that Germany owes Greece 185 billion euros in World War II reparations, of which less that 1 percent has been...

Germany rejected Greece's demands for World War II reparations after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Berlin of using legal tricks to avoid the issue. Greece's...

Defence Minister Wayne Mapp is representing New Zealand at ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Crete this weekend. The Minister and Chief...

Dozens of people from the town of Distomo, in south-central Greece, held a peaceful candlelight demonstration outside the German Embassy in Athens on Thursday...

From Athenian Revues to World War II Songs Sophia Vembo (1910-1978) was born in Gallipolis, a town in Thrace in northern Greece. Her real name was...

Located in Lake Nemi in Italy, the Nemi ships consisted of two vessels built on orders of the Roman emperor Caligula (37 to 41...

Considered by some to be the influence for Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, the Greek-speaking British spy Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz carried out a series of...

A total of 314 WWII German bombs have been discovered during work on a massive urban development project at the former airport complex of...

Since 1943, Leros island in the eastern Aegean has been the world's second biggest "museum" of WWII shipwrecks after Normandy. During the past five...

Many Greeks raised their eyebrows when they watched the latest Netflix documentary which describes the resistance to the WWII Italian invasion as "weak." The Netflix...