World War II, the world's deadliest international conflict, left almost 80 million people dead. Here's what started it and why it ended in 1945.

The film chronicles the history of Berlin from 1939 to the 1960s, highlighting the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the onset of World War II, and the subsequent division of the city during the Cold ...

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The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the German dead to rest, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started.

Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war.

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers The ongoing recovery of the dead underscores how much remains unresolved as the world marks the 80th ...

George Burson, an Air Force veteran, was a World War II POW in Germany and fought in the Korean War. He turns 103 on Memorial Day.

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

Eighty years after World War II's end, the search for fallen German soldiers continues across Europe. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge works to recover and rebury remains, offering ...

The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the German dead to rest, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started.