“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two with islanders ...

At the height of the season, there can be as many as 10 cruise boats double-parked along the riverbank. The local economy is based on wine and peaches, which combine into a sort of German Bellini ...

AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made an impassioned plea for European and transatlantic unity Monday in a speech marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation ...

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz will become the country’s 10th chancellor since World War II. Merz seeks to take the helm ...

survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by the German occupation of the country and the deportation of Jews and others to death camps.

He never really has since the end of World War II, when he had to use his wits to ... wait months before their war finally ended with the German capitulation. On Monday, veterans and dignitaries ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized early Monday in high surf off San Diego's Pacific coast and left three people dead and four injured, while U.S. Coast ...