World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

For years, ever since the footage appeared in TV documentaries and online, the identity and fate of the so-called 'Lost ...

In Moscow, the Russian word for 'Victory' - 'Pobeda' – is everywhere: on giant billboards, on posters in shop windows, even ...

Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

A great-grandmother who partied outside Buckingham Palace on VE Day says people will "never understand" what the day was like ...

In March 1982, our school magazine emerged with a tongue-in-cheek questionnaire of our senior management team. What, went one ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, and as the nation celebrates, Coryne Hall takes us back to the 8th of May ...

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

They were bitter enemies, seemingly destined to be perpetually at odds after fighting two devastating world wars less than 30 ...

A 104-year-old WW2 veteran can still speak German after learning the language as a POW – more than 80 years ago Eric Reeves, ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May ...

Adolf Galland, was a famous and influential German Luftwaffe general and flying ace who served throughout the Second World War in Europe. He flew 705 combat missions in the Defence of the Reich. Known ...