I was only 4 when WW2 broke out ... have been in the summer of 1940 when during an air raid a German fighter plane was shot down and ended up on the hockey pitch. The girls in my sister's form ...

Forced to flee then-East Prussia to Lithuania at the end of World War Two, these orphaned German children survived hunger, cold and the loss of identity ... after World War II in East Prussia ...

World War II may have ended in 1945, but for Daniel Rouxel, the personal battle went on much longer. Born to a French mother and a German soldier father in occupied France, the retiree has finally ...

"I thought I recognised myself," she said, indicating a girl with curly hair and a short ... from the French-occupied part of Germany who had German mothers and French soldiers as fathers.

"I didn't look like anyone in the family." Spire is among the post-war children from the French-occupied part of Germany who had German mothers and French soldiers as fathers. About 1,500 of them ...