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Richard Nelsson

London

Writer at The Guardian

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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

    Pacific islanders agitate in the shadow of the bombBy Christopher Price 17 September 1981A recent Canard cartoon shows Adam and Eve looking at an H-bomb. “Look, H for Hernu,” (the new Socialist defence minister), says Adam. “Yes and for Horror, Holocaust, Hecatomb and Hiroshima,” adds Eve. French Socialists have never hitherto allowed the nuclear issue to dominate their politics.

  • 4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Kate Connolly |Shaun Walker |Jon Henley |Deborah Cole | +1 more

    Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureWinston Churchill’s great-great-grandson Alexander Churchill, 10, lit the VE Day 80th candle of peace during a service at Westminster Abbey today. The youngster, dressed in a suit and tie, stepped forward and made his way up the steps in front of the altar, where he was handed a flame to light the large cream church candle.

  • 4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Amy Sedghi |Richard Nelsson

    Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureThe Guardian's front page on VE DayVictory in Europe: proclamation to-day8 May 1945VE Day, The Guardian, 8 May 1945 Photograph: Richard Nelsson/The GuardianThe war in Europe has ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender. Victory will be announced officially by the prime minister in a broadcast at three o’clock this afternoon and the King with broadcast at 9 pm.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

    The scene in the squareFrom our special correspondent 30 April 1945Milan, 29 April Mussolini, with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and 12 members of his cabinet, were executed by partisans in a village on Lake Como yesterday afternoon, after being arrested in an attempt to cross the Swiss frontier. The bodies were brought to Milan last night. A partisan knocked at my door early this morning to tell me the news.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Richard Nelsson

    Prison camp’s fate: British to take chargeFrom David Woodward, Manchester Guardian war correspondent 14 April 1945On the AllerAs a result of negotiations carried out between British and German officers during a local truce on this sector British troops will take over from the SS and the Wehrmacht the task of guarding a vast concentration camp at Belsen, a few miles north-west of Celle, which contains approximately 60,000 prisoners, both criminals and anti-Nazis.

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