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

This photograph of resistance fighters in Crete posing with German rifles and hand-grenades has been making the rounds of ...

The Battle of Crete will remain forever in military history as the scene of the largest German airborne operation of World ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy on the 6th June 1944, the Allies fought a bitter 77 day battle ...

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 ...

After five years under the Nazi jackboot, the Channel Islands were finally liberated on May 9, 1945. But Hitler's 'model occupation' was hardly bloodless ...

Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

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 ...

In Berlin, a week of remembrance begins on Friday to commemorate the end of the Second World War 80 years ago. Until May 11, the Senate and numerous partners are planning around 100 events, including ...