BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its ...

On this day in history, July 17, 1945, after Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II, the Potsdam Conference outside Berlin, Germany, began, with Truman, Churchill and Stalin.

Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

In spring 1945, the Martin B-26 Marauder helped lead precision strikes as U.S. forces pushed deeper into Nazi Germany. Known for its speed and firepower, it flew low-altitude missions that exposed ...

Aftermath. By Harald Jähner. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Knopf; 416 pages; $30. WH Allen; £20 T HE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war ...

Germany and all other countries should be required to accept a common bill of rights covering the civil and human liberties of the individual, regardless of creed, color, or national origin.

By the end of World War II, only about 15,000 Jews remained. After the Third Reich was defeated in 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones.

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...

Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival as the ...

Germany was reunited in 1990 and the national government moved to Berlin in 1999. Parliament now meets in the restored Reichstag, where the raising of the Soviet Union’s red flag in 1945 was ...

The military surrender of Berlin on May 2, 1945, wasn't quite the end of the war. Hitler's successor, Grand Adm. Karl Dönitz, tried to fight on but was quickly forced to negotiate Germany's ...