The year was 1941. Norway had fallen into darkness under the iron fist of Hitler’s brutal Wehrmacht. The conquering German ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

It's not all stories of spies, bombs and Spitfires: here's how the Norwegians used simple paperclips to defeat the Nazi ...

Nobody doubts the difficulty of counting the dead in war. Hence the omnipresent tomb for The Unknown Soldier which ...

Following the collapse of Wehrmacht forces in the west they would retreat toward the Seine River . A desperate bid to escape the fury of the Allies. In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I continue my ...

West Australians have gathered to pay tribute to the state's last World War II prisoner of war, Arthur Leggett, who died last month aged 106.

The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. From 1940-1945 Germans set up ...

During these dying days of WW2, a small medieval castle in the Austrian Alps became ... The Battle for Castle Itter is the only recorded case of the entire war when soldiers from the German Wehrmacht ...

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

It venerates Nazi collaborators who fought on the side of the German Wehrmacht and took part in its crimes, erects monuments to them and has streets renamed after them. Andrij Melnyk, for example ...

German government warns against Russian propaganda at WW2 events Russian ambassador attends Seelow commemoration despite German caution Ukrainian envoy criticizes Russian presence at war victim ...