When the Germans surrendered in May 1945, ending World War Two in Europe, most of the soldiers stationed in Jersey were shipped away to prison camps in Britain. They left behind countless objects as a ...

Klaus Schwab's father, Eugen Wilhelm Schwab, worked for a company that supplied munitions to the Nazi regime during World War II. There is no evidence to support the claim that Eugen Schwab was an ...

More than 75 years after V-E Day—the German surrender on May 8, 1945, that ended the physical fighting on the Western Front in World War II—myths and misconceptions about the war remain. TIME asked ...

BERLIN, May 18, 1940. — Going to the front tomorrow. At last will get a chance — maybe — to see how this German army colossus has been doing it, walking through Belgium, Holland, and now northern ...

The following is excerpted from a letter sent by a World War II German prisoner of war to Lt. Frederick Lyon Dalton, an American who oversaw detainees assigned to work in an officer’s mess in France.

Major Robert Swenson USAFR (Retired), of Bellevue, will be awarded the Bronze Star medal on Aug. 10 for his actions in the last major airborne operation of World War II in Europe. The award will be ...

An 86-year-old former commander of a Nazi-backed unit suspected in the World War II massacres of Slovak civilians, including Jews, has been arrested at his home in Munich, prosecutors said Monday. The ...