New Yorkers shout their joy at hearing reports of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) Facts and summary, V-E Day, also written VE Day: V-E Day stands for ...
After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...
Post-war Germany has been seen as a model of 'transitional justice' in action, where the prosecution of Nazis, most prominently in the Nuremberg Trials, helped promote a transition to democracy.
THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...
Elements of George Patton's Third Army confronted the human horror inflicted by Hitler's National Socialist Workers Party when American GIs entered the Buchenwald concentration camp on this day in ...
On 12 May, 1945, as Allied forces swept across Europe, in the small Dutch town of Goes, Frederick Gray, a British soldier ...
On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said Truman. "General Eisenhower informs me that the ...
In January of 1945, when the Queen Mary arrived in Scotland, Robert Coyne and the other soldiers were loaded on trains bound for Southampton, England. The trip took longer than expected as the train ...
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