Rather than flee the Soviet violence in 1945, heroic Polish sisters chose to remain with those they cared for. They were ...

Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet in Istanbul to exchange their plans for how to end the three-year war, Europe’s ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have ...

The Reckoning, Phil Craig presents a powerful and nuanced account of the climactic final year of World War II, focusing not ...

Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a ...

Harry Humason, who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, was shocked when hundreds of grateful Czech citizens donated to pay for his travels.

This year's final Grand Parade at the Suffolk Show included a special event to mark the 80th anniversary of the Second World ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution ...

A steam engine that pulled deportation trains at the end of World War II was transformed into a work of art by a French ...

With the end of World War II in Europe, letters from American families seeking information about their loved ones began arriving at town halls across the southern Netherlands. Postmarked from big ...

A New Musical follows a real WWII spy mission that tricked the Nazis using a corpse and fake documents. SpitLip comedy troupe ...