In today’s episode of our series How did WWII end in the Czech lands?, we recall the last bombing raids on Plzeň with ...

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of ...

King Leopold III of Belgium returned to Brussels on July ... he was forced to abdicate because of his actions during World War II. In the summer of 1942, two years after the Belgian Army had ...

The political forces that thwarted the European Defense Community - a previous attempt at a common EU army and defense policy ...

Whakaata Māori again brings Aotearoa together in remembrance and reflection this Anzac Day honouring our servicemen and women and their whānau, beginning with the Dawn Service from Auckland War ...

Even without nuclear weapons being effectively used, the military use of nuclear energy causes a great deal of damage.

As the world marks Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day , a sobering visualization by The World in Maps brings ...

In the memorable May of 1945, amidst the wave of universal jubilation, it seemed that Nazism had been eradicated forever. The ...

At the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Elie Wiesel – author, Nobel Laureate, survivor – is seen on the second row up near the man standing. April 16, 1945. Photo by Harry ...

This quiet alpine cabin was once a wartime refuge for a Belgian family fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. Now, it sits ...

The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

In view of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, Europe must ...