After Germany surrendered in 1945, the nation was divided into four zones. Each zone controlled by a different Allied nation (the United States, France, United Kingdom or the Soviet Union). By 1949, ...

Discover the pivotal events between 1918 and 1942 that shaped the first half of World War II. This timeline traces that path ...

In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, and German ...

A motorway in south-western Germany will be temporarily closed off on Thursday evening while experts defuse a World War II bomb found nearby. The operator of an excavator found the unexploded ...

Over the course of the campaign, the Allies dropped an estimated 2.5 million tons of high explosives, according to the U.S. War Department’s 1947 Strategic Bombing Survey. By the end of the war, the ...

In the winter of World War II, Germany unleashed its most powerful tanks in a final attempt to break the Allied advance. Led by elite Waffen-SS units and commanders like Joachim Peiper, the offensive ...

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...