nazi germany

“"My father used to say to my mother, 'Doesn't Patty look a lot like Adolf Hitler?'"

Operation Market Garden was the largest airborne operation in history, but in a little more than week of fighting, the operation — and hopes of an early end to the war —fell apart

For almost a year, more than 3,000 V-2 rockets would be launched at civilian and military targets in Belgium, Britain, France, and the Netherlands

That's gonna be a yikes from me, dawg.

In the early hours of August 19, 1942, more than 6,000 British, Canadian, and U.S. soldiers and sailors on over 230 ships and landing craft were making their final preparations for Operation Jubilee

There are Nazi troops buried in US national cemeteries with headstones adorned with swastikas, and Veterans Affairs is taking heat for preserving the grave markers

"It ended at different times for different soldiers. It ended when the Germans in front of them gave up.”

When German and Allied military officials gathered again in Berlin near midnight on May 8 to sign surrender documents, the atmosphere in the room was laden with emotional and political weight.

"It was terrible. I never saw anything like those camps"

December 16 marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. This is the story of Medal of Honor recipient Pfc. Francis S. Currey, whose actions helped save the flank of his entire battalion from advancing German soldiers at Malmedy

East Aurora, New York native and World War II veteran Luciano "Louis" C. Graziano is believed to be the last living eyewitness to the formal surrender of Germany at the "Little Red Schoolhouse" in Reims, France

The captain of the Admiral Graf Spee committed suicide two days after he had ordered his ship to be scuttled in one of the most remarkable sea battles of all time

Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk inspired new attention to the famous evacuation by sea, in 1940, of four hundred thousand British troops under...

Of all the harrowing, intimidating arms and artillery dreamed up by military engineers over the last few centuries, few induce...