Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has backed the decision not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building - which houses the German Parliament - during Berlin Pride celebrations, saying the building ...

President Donald Trump called D-Day 'not a pleasant day for you,' in a comment that associated German Chancellor Merz with the German forces fending off the Allied invasion.

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII ...

Lost flag belonging to Bay Area man shot down in WWII returned to family More than 81 years after his plane was shot down during WWII, and proclaimed lost forever, the remains of San Francisco Bay ...

101-year-old WWII veteran gets new class ring after trading original for sardines in POW camp Alton Marquette High School students honor alumnus Robert Ryan, who sacrificed a school memento for ...

The "Dragon" in question was a captured German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter, the first of its kind to fly over the English Channel. It landed under a veil of utmost secrecy at Beaulieu ...

Germany is stationing thousands of troops in Lithuania, the first time it's put soldiers in another country on a long-term basis since World War II.

An Irish band touring Europe has had a show in Germany cancelled after a venue refused to allow a Palestinian flag on stage. The Murder Capital, a post-punk group formed in Dublin, was due to ...

Germany marks 80 years since WWII’s end while struggling with rise of far right As World War II fades from living memory, its place in the German collective consciousness is as complicated as ever.

BERLIN – On a spring afternoon in Berlin’s eastern district of Karlshorst, the Ukrainian flag fluttered alone in front of the four-columned entrance of the German-Russian Museum. Dr Jorg Morre ...

A group of soldiers knelt in a forest of southern Poland in the fall of 1939 and buried several flags. They’d been defeated by invading Nazi German forces but didn’t want anything to happen to ...