On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

We stumbled upon a site overflowing with WWII artifacts — helmets, tools, and field gear left behind by retreating German soldiers. No metal detector needed; history lies scattered on the surface.

Margarete Schulz stepped down the gangway onto British soil, her Wehrmacht auxiliary uniform stiff with salt spray and three ...

For more than eight decades, one of the Holocaust's most haunting images remained shrouded in mystery. The photograph shows a ...

On June 22, 1944, exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, 2.4 million Red Army soldiers launched Operation Bagration—the most devastating military defeat in German history. This ...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin brought to international attention the massacre of Italian soldiers in the Greek island of ...

Nearly 80 years after Imperial Japan's surrender ended World War II, the number of American veterans who served in the conflict has fallen to around 66,000, according to the Department of Veterans ...