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Adolf Hitler with filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl on Nazi party day in Nuremberg, 1934.

Hitler’s favourite filmmaker always denied she was a Nazi. Now we know the truth

The director of a new documentary on Leni Riefenstahl trawled through 700 boxes of material from her estate to find answers.

  • Garry Maddox

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The AfD, now the second-largest party in the German government, is on a similar electoral trajectory to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Lest we forget history. Has the next world war already begun?

It’s 80 years since the end of WWII. If we don’t remember how it began, we are doomed to relive it.

  • Dennis Glover
Gwenda Garde (nee Moulton), 102, at home in Orange, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service.

The teenager who hunted Japanese submarines

Gwenda Garde, aged 102, served in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service during World War II as a translator of Japanese Morse code.

  • Tim Barlass
Two-up at the Sackville Hotel, Rozelle on Anzac Day, 2022.

Two-up: a ‘fair dinkum’ tradition or a devilish game of skill?

Two-up is played religiously on Anzac Day at pubs and clubs across Australia. But is there a darker side to the simple coin toss, and can you improve your chances?

  • Penry Buckley
Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans and Olivia DeJonge as Ella in The Narrow Road to the Deep North. 

Horror and heartbreak is real in the devastating Narrow Road to the Deep North

With a tender performance from Jacob Elordi at its centre, this is perhaps one of the most beautiful and harrowing war stories I have seen. 

  • Louise Rugendyke
A world away from war: Max Caldwell, centre, at his 100th birthday party in Blackburn. At right is Michael Ralston, son of Gilbert Ralston, a 2/14 Battalion member, with Ralston’s wife Elaine at left.

‘I’m not a hero’: A world away from battle, WWII veteran turns 100

Max Caldwell, who turned 100 on Sunday, is one of only two surviving soldiers from the 2/14th Battalion.

  • Carolyn Webb
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference on nationalising British Steel.

‘National security on the line’: Starmer pulls off extraordinary move to save British steel

The UK parliament was recalled for just the fifth time since WWII to vote on emergency legislation, and passed the bill in less than 24 hours.

  • Rob Harris
Jacob Elordi as Dorrigo Evans in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

‘A teenage dream come true’: The email from a cinematic hero that brought Jacob Elordi home

The 27-year-old Brisbane-born actor is hot property right now, but he found his first leading role in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

  • Louise Rugendyke
David Laird stands ready beneath the Lonesome Pine with “Clarrie’s Flag”, the banner of the 7th Battalion, for the early Anzac ceremony at Wattle Park.

The park where Anzac Day comes early, beneath Australia’s oldest Lone Pine

Each year hundreds flock to the Anzac service that is held in Wattle Park a week before Anzac Day. This year, it will be two weeks early.

  • Tony Wright
Takamatsu Gushiken leaves a cave after a session of searching for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa, in Itoman, Okinawa archipelago, southern Japan.

Old bones on jungle island sound warning to those living here today

Takamatsu runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge - parts of the skulls, he says, of an infant and possibly an adult.

  • Ayaka McGill, Hiro Komae and Mari Yamaguchi

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