World War II

105-year-old soldier shares recollections of history’s deadliest war

The pension was previously denied to soldiers injured before independence in 1947

Many athletes put their careers on hold to fight in World War II

COVID-19 has now infected more than 840,000 people around the world

Hotels in Swat Valley shuttered, workers sent home

Swiss company is top supplier of devices for encoding communications to 120 countries from and after World War II

Yulia and Rozalina Kharitonova, now 92 and 94, hugged and kissed as their family members watched in tears

'When people dress up as Adolf Hitler, an investigation is always necessary'

It is time now that the leaderships of these three nations strive for a unity that is local to us

Cyprus officials say the request was accepted 'for exclusively humanitarian operations'

Police say an investigation has been opened on charges of disturbing a burial site of Reinhard Heydrich

Ten minutes after the flight took off ,the pilots radioed the control tower to say they were experiencing problems

Nearly six million citizens died as Poland suffered some of the worst horrors of World War II

It was the world's deadliest conflict, estimated to have killed 40 to 60 million people

Thursday, August 15, marks the anniversary of Japan's World War Two surrender

Here is a chronology of the historic event that heralded the Nazi defeat

Seeking to show that transatlantic harmony at a time of increasing international discord

447 law requires US State Dept to report on restitution of Jewish assets seized during World War II & its aftermath

The siege of Leningrad claimed over 800,000 lives

A total of 200,000 people were held at Mauthausen, half of whom died before the camp's liberation by US troops

Historians say up to 200,000 women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II

Earlier on Wednesday, Abe sent a ritual offering to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead

The underground bunker was built a few years before World War II for luggage storage

Photo series depicts what is now considered to be one of the most unfateful yet important moments in modern history

More than 21,000 people have since signed an online petition demanding it be taken down

The photo album was found in April 1945 in the bedroom of Hitler's long-time companion Eva Braun

The mobile device of destruction is expected to fetch between $200,000 and $300,000

Edith Steiner, a 20-year-old Hungarian Jew, was to face imminent death in Auschwitz

American B-29 bomber dropped its deadly payload on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945

"Little Boy" and "Fat Man" had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing an estimated 214,000 people

I am happy that freedom of expression has been acknowledged, says Ahn Sehong

In January the 2,000 page, two-volume work will go on sale after about three years of labour by scholars

The defendant is accused of complicity in the killings at the camp in occupied Poland between 1943 and 1944

In 2000, head of a Russian commission of investigation conceded that the diplomat had been killed in Lubyanka in 1947

On November 20, 1945, leaders of the World War II Nazi regime went on what is known as the biggest trial in history

Beijing marks the 70th anniversary of victory over Japan