WWII ended with the defeat of Nazi Germany and the formation of new alliances that shaped the post-war world order. Europe houses some of the most historically significant sites related to WWII.
He died in combat in Europe, just over a year later. GIs prepare to cross the Roer River. (DOD photo) “Collette told my dad that when Thomas McWilliams was training at Fort Rucker, someone broke ...
WW2: The Holocaust year by year. documentWW2: The Holocaust year by year A timeline of the events that unfolded in Europe between 1933 and 1946. What happened? And how much was known at the time?
Berliners have been given an unprecedented public holiday, to mark the end of World War Two in Europe but also liberation from Nazi rule. Not since reunification has a German city acknowledged 8 ...
Victory in Europe Day marks the day in 1945 when Britain ... in Brighton Mr Johnson also held a Zoom call with 102-year-old WW2 veteran Ernie Horsfall, one of the UK's oldest surviving servicemen.
A timeline of the most destructive global conflict in history, from the ferocious attacks Nazi Germany unleashed across Europe, to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2 ...
A historian studying World War Two soldiers responsible for violent atrocities in the Far East, says they were partly radicalised by their own diaries. Dr Aaron William Moore, from The University of ...
Everything you need to know about 'Austria's Donald Trump' - who could become the first far-right European head of state since WW2 After moving into politics, Hofer worked his way through the ...