The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

Four soldiers were killed in action in Germany, and on Tuesday the Nebraska Patriot Guard Riders escorted them to the Omaha ...

He was always a proud American, even when his country locked him up. A World War II hero celebrates 100 years and says his ...

As life happened, as the years passed, and as the world changed, Robert Bailey's quest to hug life and remain active has ...

The first recorded translation of the U.S. anthem, into German, was done by schoolteacher, choir director and future New ...

The first of July has come round again and the great disaster becomes a trifle dimmer than before. It is the most dismal of ...

Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S.

I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I’ve known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of World War II European ...

Most days, you can find Laurent Stemkens at his busy job preparing food in a restaurant kitchen. The amiable, bushy-haired 25 ...

A German brigade has started operations in Lithuania, a NATO state that borders part of Russia. It's the first time Germany has put troops in another country on a long-term basis since World War II.

World War II, which claimed the lives of 40 million civilians and 20 million soldiers, was a tragic time when seen through a humanitarian lens. However, it is poetic how the period, in which the ...

Germany lost over 5 million soldiers in World War II. As battle lines shifted rapidly, many were buried in unmarked or forgotten graves, especially in places like Halbe, where one of the war’s ...