Daniele Greene remembers the first time she heard Adolf Hitler's voice on the radio. She was just a child, living with her parents in Noirmoutier, a tidal island off the Atlantic Coast of France. It ...

World War I broke out in 1914 as a result of ethnic rivalry between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia. A web of secret alliances dragged country after country in until the continent was divided ...

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

GREENVILLE S.C. (WSPA) – World War II veteran Sgt. George Reitmeier has departed Greenville-Spartanburg International and is headed to France for the 79th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. On June 6, ...

It's been a lifetime, literally, since the invasion of the beaches at Normandy in France in 1944. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the event historians often refer to as the beginning of the ...

As WW2 began, British Expeditionary Force deployed across the Channel. RAF sent four squadrons of their Hawker Hurricane fighters. Initially, they intercepted some German bombers on recon missions ...

Thierry Soudan discovered late in life he was the son of a German soldier - Copyright AFP Ulrike KOLTERMANN Thierry Soudan discovered late in life he was the son of a ...

France's liberation in 1944 brought joyous freedom but also a brutal 'Wild Purge.' Women accused of intimacy with German ...

France on Thursday passed a law making it easier to return the works of art seized by Nazi Germany which ended up in French museums to their Jewish owners. The law, adopted unanimously by both houses ...

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s top politician said Thursday that the government will seek the equivalent of some $1.3 trillion in reparations from Germany for the Nazis’ World War II invasion and ...