Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th ...

In May 1945, the world had to reckon with the Holocaust after armies uncovered the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps.

The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The ...

Half of Europe was now at ... way to the German frontier long before Western Allies had even reached Paris. Stalin launched Operation Bagration on June 21, a fortnight after D-Day.

The German invasion of the Netherlands started relatively early ... With Allied bombings, the Red Army marching through Eastern Europe, and the D-day landings on the Western Front, the Axis were on ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

When the Germans left Jersey following their surrender in 1945, they left behind countless bunkers and other fortifications ... the island's heritage is viewed now and is passed on to future ...

After decades of division and its revival as the capital of a reunited, democratic Germany, the city is now transformed ... Hitler killed himself in his bunker on April 30; and on May 2, the ...