LONDON (AP) — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks ...

— April 29: British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepts the unconditional surrender of German and Italian forces in Italy ...

Deserters also survived in a similar shelter in Kaundorf, which was restored as a national monument in 1987. The largest ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on ...

As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on painful memories shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deport ...

PARIS (AP) — As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War ...

Despite tensions and disagreements between the EU and China in recent years, two key European leaders — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron — have expressed their ...

Five German escapees - four paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor - fled a POW camp in Granville, France, seeking a daring way back to German-held territory. Amid worsening winter weather in 1944 ...

They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of fierce urban combat. By April 1945, the invasion of Germany was well underway. After ...

Many Second World War bunkers, such as this one in Bremen, have been converted to art galleries or nightclubs - dpa picture alliance/Alamy ...

Germany is developing a geolocation app guiding people to their nearest bunker or emergency shelter, while France is currently preparing to send a 20-page survival manual to all households.