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Pin-up girls, cars and even a wedding
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Crime writer switches to medieval mystery
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Former Nazi death camp guard charged
German prosecutors have charged a 96-year-old former SS guard with accessory to murder.
Family of Kiwi soldier find wartime hero
Private Raymond Cullen was the only survivor of a post hit by German artillery fire.
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Joy as WWI medal finds its way home
Long lost Passchendaele war medal is reunited after 40 years, writes Kurt Bayer.
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The slaughter which brought AB greats to tears
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Iain MacKenzie: How Passchendaele became a disaster
Passchendaele cost 300,000 lives and the territory gained was lost three months later.
The H Files: Rough justice for goldfields gang
A new book argues two members of a gold robbing gang were wrongly hanged.
Passchendaele: Mourning the Grammar boys
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Two men wrongly hanged - author
Researcher says new evidence discredits police informer
Troop ship banned from rescuing men overboard
Sick, delirious soldier thought to have fallen from ship unnoticed.
Jude Dobson's Western Front journey
Jude Dobson has traced her grandfather's journey to the Western Front.
Big Read: Passchendaele a century on
Thursday marks the centenary of New Zealand's darkest hour.
Those magnificent Kiwi men
A new book reveals the untold story of NZ's World War I airmen.
Garden opens in landscape of grief
New Zealand garden set in a landscape of grief laid on a European battlefield.
How did disease add to NZ's blackest year?
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WWI exhibition gives glimpse of war hell
The tragic story of Passchendaele is on display at the Great War Exhibition.
Kiwi designer knew how to make women feel beautiful
Over 200 dresses are going on show for charity. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Germans' escape mocked Kiwis' wartime security
Armed Kiwi ship hunted down fleeing Germans on the high seas
Stand for Maori inspires 'taking kneel'
Thomas Middlemas stood up for Maori in 1872; a descendant is kneeling for black Americans.
1941 shootings: Police victims honoured at new venue
The 1941 Stan Graham shootings remain the greatest single loss of police in New Zealand.
'I got a bullet straight through the penis'
The WWII veteran was told he may never be able to have children.
Nazi nuclear bomb discovery
A pensioner has found Hitler may have come much closer to developing atomic weaponry.
Marvelly: Unearth rich Māori history
Youngsters given valuable opportunity to learn about their past
Soper: Unprecedented, unusual election
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Kiwi women in front at the ballot box
As soon as women had won the right to vote they exceeded men in voting turnout.
Local Focus: Waikato candidates' local history test
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