world war ii

The move is intended to make it unattractive as a place of pilgrimage for Nazi sympathizers and hate groups.

Work has started on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station.

Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government’s top-secret Manhattan Project.

Officials say two veteran California pilots were killed when their World War II-era planes collided in midair after completing a race and preparing to land over the weekend at the National Championship Air Races north of Reno.

The effort was the culmination of years of work to recover the remains of an American airman whose plane went down off the coast of Malta during World War II.

The remains of a World War II veteran killed when his bomber was shot down on a mission targeting oil fields near Romania have been identified. U.S. Army Air Force 1st Lt. Alfred Pezzella of Newton, Massachusetts was serving as the bombardier of a B-24 Liberator bomber on Aug. 1, 1943, when the plane was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire...

Some 14,000 people have been evacuated in the eastern Polish town of Lublin to allow military experts to remove a massive unexploded bomb believed to be from World War II.

Christopher Nolan recruited a star-studded cast for his latest theatrical release

Goodwill employees found the historic documents in a secret compartment inside a donated lockbox.

Employees of the Goodwill in Edmond, Oklahoma, discovered a cache of World War II-era documents inside a locked box.

A German museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe.

World War II veteran Jake Larson survived D-Day on Omaha Beach. Now he’s a TikTok star.

World War II veterans, officials and visitors are commemorating D-Day on the beaches of Normandy to honor those who fought for freedom in the largest naval, air and land operation in history.

Wreckage from a U.S. Navy destroyer sunk by a kamikaze aircraft attack during World War II has been discovered in the Pacific Ocean. 

We’re honoring Asian American heritage by revisiting a dark period in our country’s past. A local woman shares the story of her family being forced to live in a Japanese internment camp.

One of the architects of the Holocaust was Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the most loyal and high-ranking officers of Hitler’s Nazi party. He might have escaped justice the day the Nazis surrendered, if not for a NYC man who shared his heroic story for the first time

At the age of 27, with no previous trial experience, Ferencz became chief prosecutor for a 1947 case in which 22 former commanders were charged with murdering over 1 million Jews, Romani and other enemies of the Third Reich in Eastern Europe.

Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on become a decorated World War II flyer, has died in Arizona.

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are gathering to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp amid horror that yet another war has shattered peace in Europe.

A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt.