Thousands of European volunteers who had joined the Waffen SS found themselves abandoned, surrounded, and left with nowhere ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

Berlin's Final Battle delves into the dramatic and brutal final days of the Third Reich as Soviet forces closed in on the German capital. Witnessing the intense street-to-street fighting, Waffen SS ...

Approximately 100 U.S. Army Soldiers from European-based units and two contiguous U.S.-based units participated in ...

John "Lucky" Luckadoo flew 25 bombing missions over Europe during the war, surviving some of the most intense air battles of ...

The USS LST-325, a World War II landing ship, tank (LST) turned floating museum, will be docked at the port of Alton from ...

An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be ...

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial Day for the End of the War". World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but ...

A military parade in Beijing marking the end of World War II will draw leaders from around the world. It's an opportunity for ...