On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

The liberation of Bergen-­Belsen concentration camp by British forces on April 15, 1945 was portrayed in the media of the ...

A Mauser Karabiner 98k grenade launcher attachment was recovered at a late-war Eastern Front position alongside a bayonet ...

Guest writer Richard Bevan explores how Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels used power to pursue affairs that contradicted ...

Standoff ended without bloodbath, aided by Dutch resistance member Herman Kloppenburg, who arrived wearing Canadian major's uniform to help broker surrender ...

The files include operating instructions for the SG-41, encryption rules and key tables used during the closing weeks of the war ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

The city of Dresden was largely reduced to rubble as a result of the February 1945 Allied bombing campaign. (Rob Welham/Universal History Archive via Getty Images) For 15 hours beginning on the night ...

U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and other warships at the Naval Repair Base in San Diego during World War II, illustrating the city’s key role in the wartime home front. (Public domain, U.S. National ...

Tim Luckhurst has received research funding from News UK and Ireland Ltd. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Society of Editors and the Free Speech Union. Eighty years ago ...

There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...

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