Seventy-five years since the end of World War II in Europe, the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking economic and social havoc on a scale often described as the worst global crisis since 1945.
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n eastern Germany, today’s verdant pastures were killing fields 75 years ago as the Soviet Red Army pushed toward the Nazi capital in the final weeks of World War II.
Read moreBritain organized a flyover and 140,000 people sent cards to mark the 100th birthday on Thursday of a World War II veteran whose staggering fundraising efforts have inspired a country in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe Tule Lake Committee sued the FAA, the Tulelake City Council, et al. in federal court, claiming they violated state and federal law by selling the site of the Tule Lake WWII concentration camp to co-defendant Modoc Nation for $22,000 less than the committee’s offer, for political reasons.
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To gauge the impact that fleeing extremist ideologs have on the communities they move into, researchers turned to an unlikely source: an Austrian phonebook.
Read moreA federal court in Washington denied the Hungarian government’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by 14 of nearly 825,000 Hungarian Jews subjected to the “horrors of the Holocaust at the hands of the Hungarian government.” The plaintiffs seek restitution for property seized from them during World War II.
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For Antonina Palomo Cross, Japan’s occupation of Guam started with terror at church. The then-7-year-old was attending Catholic services with her family when the 1941 invasion began, setting off bomb blasts, sirens and screams.
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Dozens of world leaders descended on Jerusalem Thursday for the largest-ever gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism — a politically charged event that has been clouded by rival national interpretations of the genocide.
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Explosives experts on Tuesday successfully defused an unexploded American bomb from World War II in the western German city of Cologne, authorities said.
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A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California’s second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in the waning days of World War II.
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Thousands of people have signed an online petition against the planned demolition of two early 20th-century buildings that remained intact after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima devastated the Japanese city.
Read moreMore than 2,000 people attended a ceremony Saturday to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor 78 years ago and launched the U.S. into World War II.
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On Dec. 7, 1941, 21-year-old Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last man to escape the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona after a Japanese plane dropped a bomb that ignited an enormous explosion in the battleship’s ammunition storage compartment.
Read moreGoar Vartanyan, one half of a legendary Soviet spy couple who helped prevent a Nazi assassination of allied leaders in Tehran in 1943, has died at age 93.
Read moreAdolf Hitler’s top hat, Eva Braun’s dresses and a silver-covered edition of “Mein Kampf” are among the items being put up for sale by a German auction house, prompting protests from Jewish leaders.
Read moreFormer South Korean wartime sex slaves went to court in Seoul Wednesday to demand compensation from the Japanese government, in a case that is likely to exacerbate tensions between the neighbors.
Read moreYvette Lundy, a Resistance hero who helped Jews escape occupied France, survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and went on to teach reconciliation, has died aged 103, authorities said Sunday.
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A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway.
Read moreFrom his post as a young SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber. Dey told investigators the carting of their lifeless bodies to the camp’s crematorium was a daily sight.
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It is a song close to French hearts, the building power of its defiant march swelling chests and bringing a tear to the eye.
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