Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

When efforts to negotiate a withdrawal fail, Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. Germany captures Paris, and France surrenders to the Nazis. Exacting revenge for his ...

Dresden commemorated the victims of the Second World War and the destruction of the city 80 years ago with several events on ...

Workers dismantling a collapsed bridge over the Elbe river in the eastern German city of Dresden have once again found an unexploded World War II-era bomb, according to authorities on Tuesday. The ...

Germany's parliament rejected on Friday an opposition draft law on tightening immigration policy, averting the prospect of a law passing for the first time in modern German history thanks to the ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern ... was under German occupation during World War II.

Israeli Ambassador to Korea Rafael Harpaz on Thursday emphasized the enduring importance of Holocaust remembrance while drawing parallels to recent tragedies during the premiere of the ...

Parliament rejects migration draft law Would have been first to pass thanks to far-right A dozen conservative lawmakers declined to back bill Dents party leader Merz's authority ahead of election ...