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 ...

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

Nazi Germany set up over 44,000 concentration camps for a wide range of purposes, including forced labor and detention of ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

The goal for Hamas has never been a two-state solution or co-existence. Its charter,still unchanged,calls for the ...

A Bolivian diplomat who translated ‘Mein Kampf’ brought up the Spanish dictator’s origins with the Third Reich. ‘Further ...

Hungarian leaders thought they could restore the nation’s lost glory through alliance with Hitler. By 1945, Budapest lay in ...

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

Soviet historians often portrayed the days of 1945 as the glorious liberation of Europe from the Nazi threat. That could have ...

Harry Humason, who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis, was shocked when hundreds of grateful Czech citizens donated to pay for his travels.

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as ...

Why is it that most American Christians seem suspiciously ignorant of what Jesus actually preached, including Vice President ...