On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly evacuating its ...

The remains of an American soldier killed in a Nazi war crime during World War II have been returned to the San Francisco Bay Area. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop of Sebastopol was a waist gunner on a ...

The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and ...

The final personal diary of Squadron Leader Patrick Gifford, who was shot down in May 1940, has also been found.

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...

Beijing hit back with its own tariffs and export restrictions after being subjected to levies by President Trump. Trade ...

With the mainstream popularity of comic-inspired movies like Avengers: Endgame, most people can at least recognize the most ...

Eight more hostages were freed from the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led militants on Thursday in a sometimes chaotic process that ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in ...

At 93, Agnes Darvas still has an excellent memory. Sometimes she wishes she didn’t. “I can never forget, nor forgive the atrocities we suffered,” she tells BIRN.

“We didn’t know what to expect. We didn’t know why we were there. And they gave us like a 10-by-10 place to sleep. We were ...