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

In the autumn of their years, a remarkable group of modest Second World War veterans muster to share stories of bravery and ...

From the left, holocaust survivors Ginette Kolinka, Arlette Testyler, Jacques Altmann, and Ester Senot walk during the ...

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 ...

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two with islanders ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

A D-Day veteran who left for Normandy from Hampshire and was shot multiple times during the Second World War has died. Cecil Newton, of Marlborough, Wiltshire, was one of more than 6,000 troops who ...

On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a ...

Exercise Tiger took place in April 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings of Allied forces in Normandy. But during that rehearsal a German fleet attacked and about 749 US servicemen died. We hear ...