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.

Now, 80 years on, the details of 16 residents of the Nazi-occupied Channel Islands who died in German internment camps ... it to hide their crimes. During D-Day on June 6, 1944 the British troops ...

Instead of the long passage from Germany, they would now be able to sail directly into ... be defeated before the Allies could contemplate D-Day. Spring 1943 was the decisive turning point.

Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany ... many enemy bunkers surrendered as soon as it was fired. Delivering an invasion force of the scale of D-Day would require ...

They saw soldiers burned alive in bunkers and civilians blown apart by errant ... The Allied invasion of German-occupied France, known as D-Day, began two days later. "In a perfect world, there would ...

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 ...

German Bunker Makler's managing owner ... past year have led to a shift in attitudes in society, so families are now taking steps to ensure their own safety," it says. The company also offers ...