The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for the vanquished Germans, it marked the end of bombings and of Nazi rule. But it was also a time of deprivation and chaos, fear and soul-searching.

Germans joined leaders from U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria and the 7th Army Training Command for a service to honor those killed ...

Even after Germany’s surrender in 1945, isolated soldiers, fanatical holdouts, and secret cells continued to resist Allied forces across Europe. Here's how—and why—they kept fighting.

In Germany, the end of World War Two in 1945 was time of chaos, fear and soul-searching. Six ordinary Germans who lived ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

The story of the Second World War in pictures, from the Blitz to Berlin. Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 ...

Collins was a passionate critic of antisemitism, as to which he advised his troops: “I know that there exists, in some divisions, what your people call antisemitism. It will not be tolerated in my d ...

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the ...