Victory in Europe Day is remembered in the public imagination as a singular event marking the end of World War II in Europe — ...

More than 100 SS troops appeared out of the woods that morning. Despite the state of the German military, they had plenty of ...

Veterans at centre of celebrations, as Royal Family hopes 'nothing will detract' from them just days after Prince Harry's ...

In a short film and in conversation, the German filmmaker ponders the meaning of freedom, the complacency of peace and the new insecurity from Russia’s war and Donald Trump.

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

Pat Owtram, who had learnt German from refugees taken in by her family, spent the Second World War using those skills to ...

Mark Smith caught up with the granddaughter of a decorated British soldier from the Second World War this weekend.

When most military history buffs think of Soviet tanks during World War II, chances are they think of the T-34. This is understandable, since it, along with America’s M4 Sherman, were the two Allied ...

During World War II, within the walls of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, a Jewish prisoner secretly penned a short ...

In the autumn of their years, a remarkable group of modest Second World War veterans muster to share stories of bravery and ...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code-breaker during World War II who kept a military secret about her assignment for decades, ...

Ruth Bourne's war work was so secretive not even her own parents knew about it - but while they saw her as a giggly teen, she ...