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 ...

Germany was among the most powerful countries before World War 2, annexing various countries and regions across Europe, including Austria and Czechoslovakia before the conflict started.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.