World War II ended on September 2, 1945, just a few months after Clement Attlee defeated Churchill in the election and became the new prime minister (although, notably, Germany's surrender had ...

Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. German influence is still evident in some of them, in some surprising ways ...

In the build-up to World War II, Germany annexed Austria, which was immediately to its south and also German-speaking. This was called the Anschluss. The occupation started on March 12, 1938 and ...

The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the German dead to rest, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started.

Wilson Beaver is a senior policy advisor in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation. Germany has activated its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War ...

The world after Oct. 7, and before Trump 2.0: ... The trauma of Oct. 7 and the war that has raged since dominated the thoughts of Jewish opinion writers in 2024, ... Germany, after World War II.

More than 20,000 residents evacuated a German city after three U.S. WWII bombs were discovered in Cologne, requiring hours of careful diffusion work before people could return to their homes.

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II. HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin ...

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers The ongoing recovery of the dead underscores how much remains unresolved as the world marks the 80th ...

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and VANESSA GERA Tue, May 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM UTC ...