After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Winston Churchill replaces a disgraced Neville Chamberlain ...

TOMASZ STACHURA/ BALTICTECH/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS A team of Polish divers say they have found almost intact the wreckage of German World War II steamer Karlsruhe, which was bombed by Soviet planes ...

World War Two also affected other minorities. 85 per cent of Germany's Sinti and Roma died in concentration camps. Between 1939 and 1941, over 100,000 Germans with physical and mental disabilities ...