The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

In WWII’s wildest mission, U.S. soldiers teamed up with German Wehrmacht troops to rescue rare Lipizzaner horses from a Nazi breeding farm. Facing SS forces and the advancing Soviets, this daring ...

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

Lili Keller-Rosenberg has been sharing her story with young people for more than 40 years. Born into a French Jewish family with Hungarian origins, she was captured in Roubaix when she was 11 years ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

Deutsche Bahn, the German railway system, has proposed a high-speed line that would run just meters from the Nazi ...

AT 96, Renee Salt’s life has been marked by unimaginable horrors. She is one of only two people still alive in Britain who ...

What if an authority figure directed you to pull a lever that delivered a painful shock to an unseen victim? If you’re like ...

Here’s a full rundown of the theories on Hitler’s possible progeny, from a supposed French love child to an alleged dalliance ...