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(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four years prior, the army of German Kaiser Wilhelm II had shot and shelled its ...

A new two-part Channel 4 documentary reveals the extent of Claude Cahun's bravery resisting the Nazis in the occupied Channel Islands during the Second World War ...

Merz and ministers sharpen criticism of Israel Germany traditionally feels special responsibility after WW2 German public opinion also shifting More than half of Germans oppose weapons exports ...

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme American Cemetery in France, where some of the first American troops ...

Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105 By Harrison Smith The Washington Post,Updated May 24, 2025, 5:32 p.m.

Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105 Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later received the ...

Born in Ukraine to Greek parents in 1943, Hadshinow was just an infant in his mother’s arms when the Nazis loaded his family onto train cars and shipped them to a forced labor camp inside Germany.

France fell to Nazi Germany in June 1940. The south was not fully occupied by Nazi forces until 1942, with the country administered by a rump state, Vichy France.

In a speech to U.S. troops, Trump bragged about his new pseudo-holidays, impersonated Macron, and said the U.S. did “more to win the war than France.” ...

At a dinner in Munich that week with members of the U.S. Congress, the mood was so somber among European participants that a U.S. representative quickly offered that Trump “would not be the Neville ...