Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...

In one of WWII's most controversial pacts, Spain's Franco sent a volunteer division to fight for Germany, but not for the ...

Ordinary Belgians helped liberate their country from the Germans in both world wars. Now their extraordinary courage has been revealed in a new account ...

The film's synopsis reads: "German soldiers (Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel) go from victory to ...

Margarete Schulz stepped down the gangway onto British soil, her Wehrmacht auxiliary uniform stiff with salt spray and three ...

A World War Two veteran celebrated his 100th birthday with an emotional surprise that took him straight back to his army days ...

He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...

Eminent scholar Roger Moorhouse recently spoke to Military Times to discuss his book, “Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War," ...

A Nazi executioner in an infamous World War II photograph has been unmasked for the first time after 80 years, using Artificial Intelligence. The man holding a pistol to the head of a kneeling Jewish ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a photographic postcard of ...

A local woman has put her life's story to paper in a self-published memoir about living in a post-World War II German labor camp and her, later, helping children in Chernobyl. Victoria Koziara Pearson ...

Carrie and Shaun Tullier have a house with probably the best foundations on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. It starts with a two-meter-thick slab of reinforced concrete, and below that is a series ...