Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. May: As Germany marches into Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Winston Churchill replaces a disgraced Neville Chamberlain ...

Dresden commemorated the victims of World War II and the destruction of the city eight decades ago with several events on ...

In Germany in 1914, at the beginning of World War One, there had been great enthusiasm ... the victims of Einsatzgruppen numbered around 1.2 million. At the end of 1941, Hitler demanded an ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess ... "Enemy propaganda is beginning to have an uncomfortably noticeable effect on the German people. Anglo-American leaflets are now ...