Learn all about the major events of World War II from 1918 to 1942. ... timeline_list_2_description: Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

The Second World War, also known as World War II, was the most devastating conflict in human history, altering the course of ...

These things were but part of the cargo of the U-234 German submarine that surrendered to the United States in May 1945.Carter Hydrick has found evidence which indicates Germany had separated uranium ...

With World War II rapidly approaching, there was a call for the Volksdeutsche, - people of German heritage outside the Reich to return home to the Fatherland and help defend it.

This summer marks the 80th anniversary of the "official" end of World War II, but in "The Greater Second World War: Global ...

At the beginning of World War II, Germany created a new standard in submachine gun (SMG) design with MP 38/40 series of Maschinenpistole.Featuring a compact, metal and Bakelite design with an ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

Italy's history as an Axis power during World War II under Fascist Benito Mussolini is well-known. But a story less told is the Italian government's impact on its citizens—Jews in particular.

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers The ongoing recovery of the dead underscores how much remains unresolved as the world marks the 80th ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small ...

The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the German dead to rest, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started.