When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.
Part of the Auschwitz war crimes court inspects the former Nazi extermination center in Poland in December 1964, where more ...
Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...
perished during World War II, from 1940 until 1945. (AP Photo, File) A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet ...
World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...
A 100-year-old veteran in York County received his Purple Heart 80 years later. “The Purple Heart means quite a bit,” ...
During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess ... a key element in the Allied campaign for German loyalties. By 1945 the British had established more than 40 clandestine pseudo ...