The Army’s 5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, the only U.S. Patriot missile battalion based in Europe, transferred its Patriot missile defense mission in Poland to German forces.

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.

World leaders and survivors will gather on the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation to commemorate the lives lost and ...

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.