Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. The ...

German lawmakers have approved weapons and equipment orders worth about 2.5 billion euros ($2.6 billion) for the armed forces ...

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...

Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey ...

The war in Europe began in September 1939 when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland.

Recording Evil,' a landmark documentary project exposing the largest spy operation in WWII, is based on declassified British ...

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...

Hidden Spies of World War II” is a collection of vignettes of 52 courageous women, most of whom spied for the Allies in ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War ...

Workers dismantling a collapsed bridge over the Elbe river in the eastern German city of Dresden have once again found an ...

The balance of power is shifting in Europe, and NATO member Poland is on track to surpass Russia in terms of having more tanks and armored vehicles. Two factors are at play—both tied to the war in ...