The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

LONDON (AP) — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day — the day Nazi Germany ...

German Foreign Minister Count Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigke announced Germany's unconditional surrender to his countrymen ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the ...

Marthe Cohn, who has died aged 105, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in France; she survived the Holocaust and after ...

REIMS, France, May 7, 1945 (Delayed) (UP) - Representatives of four Allied powers and vanquished Germany scrawled their names on a sheet of foolscap in a map-lined 30-by-30 foot room at 2:41 a.m ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of ...

His work is included in “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin,” on view through June 22 at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.( ...