Europe will commemorate the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender on May 8. But thousands of locals remain committed to preserving year-round the memories of those killed while fighting to libe ...

More than 100 SS troops appeared out of the woods that morning. Despite the state of the German military, they had plenty of ...

Britain began four days of VE Day celebrations Monday with a military parade through central London, a flypast over ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deport ...

As the tide turned and the Soviets recaptured lost territory, they saw what the German troops had done to their countrymen ...

During the Second World War, atrocities and horrors took place all over Europe as country after country fell to the ...

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The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis — and cemented two Jewish soldiers in ...

In April 1983, a German magazine, Stern ... there are about 300 of his drawings and pictures and personal documents such as his party card. I remember there are the drawings which he submitted ...

While his legacy is cemented in the dark chapters of World War II and ... British soldier Henry Tandey, a decorated veteran of the Green Howards regiment, found a wounded German soldier in his ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court upheld the conviction of seven villagers for attempting to fraudulently acquire land by forging the will of a World War II soldier who disappeared in 1943.