Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers ...

Truman designated May 8 as VE Day and the western allies followed suit, according to the museum. However, the Soviet Union recognizes its Victory Day on May 9 after having a second set of surrender ...

Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers who died in one of the last large battles of World War II fighting for ...

MOSCOW (AP) — When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war was over. Efremova, now 101, was a teenager when Nazi ...

AP PHOTOS: 80 years after World War II, Germany is still searching for its fallen soldiers In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week.

Eighty years ago tomorrow (May 8), German troops surrendered to the Allied forces, marking the end to World War II. Six years of fighting, millions of lives lost, and entire cities levelled to the ...

World War Two left an indelible mark on the world, and many of its legacies are still with us to this day - from inventions ...

The Soviet Union lost an estimated 27 million people in what Russians call the “Great Patriotic War” -– a staggering toll that left a lasting imprint on the nation’s collective memory.