Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning German-born filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” ...

On a quiet stretch of eastern Polish countryside in early September 1939, a battle unfolded that would be immortalized for ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ... EDITORS' NOTE: On May 7, 1945, AP's Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

Enter Badinski, the first German general captured in France ... This particular slice of WWII history was brought to life in the wonderful 2014 film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch ...

High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, and German soldiers lowered ... who died in one of the last large World War II battles fighting for Adolf Hitler's army ...

Are you prepared to sign it?' Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder asks the German delegation. Field Marshal Keitel, Chief of the Combined General Staff, replies: 'I am prepared to sign,' and ...

The opinion pages in Newsday’s early days were dominated by World War II commentary ... devoted to the eventual defeat of Adolf Hitler. German generals signed surrender papers on May 7, 1945, ...