Dresden nightmare Germans remember WWII air raid that destroyed Dresden
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Holger Apfel sits underneath a map of Germany showing its 1937 borders, including territories lost to Poland after the war.
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Once a vibrant center for Jewish culture, the Kazimierz ghetto in the Polish city of Krakow was devastated during World War II.
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Tears ran down the wrinkled cheeks of 81-year-old Wayne Pease on Tuesday as he recalled the destruction he witnessed on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Americans remember the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
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The German city of Dresden paid its respects to the tens of thousands of people killed in the Allied firebombing here 60 years ago.
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BERLIN - One of Germany&#39;s most precious libraries has been severely damaged by a fire in Weimar, the capital of German classical culture.
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Five years ago in Germany, a group of Berlin citizens honored Craig Ladd for flying humanitarian missions into the city at the end of World War II.
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TO THE British, it was a war cemetery. To the villagers of Stahnsdorf in the former East Germany, its annual Remembrance Day service was their window to freedom.
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The 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's elevation to German chancellor on Wednesday is one the country would prefer to forget, but the ignominious event that ultimately led to the deaths of millions remains part of the nation's weighted history.
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VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Three historic airplanes that survived World War II were pulled to safety as a hangar housing an aircraft museum burned to the ground.
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Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire Thursday night at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, although thousands more were spirited to safety by a chain of people.
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Historians call it Europe's last pogrom &#151; neighbors and police setting upon Jewish Holocaust survivors in the Polish town of Kielce with guns, clubs and metal bars in a murderous rampage little more than a year after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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German Interior Minister Otto Schily joined a commemoration Thursday of the 60th anniversary of a Nazi massacre of hundreds of civilians in this Tuscan village, calling it a "place of shame" for his nation.
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The world of football will honour the vicitims of the Munich air disaster on Wednesday, 50 years after it killed 23 people.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is to visit Germany next week and host a gala concert to fund the rebuilding of a famous cathedral in Dresden which was destroyed by British and US bombers during WWII, local media ...
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Berlin: The Queen has been urged to say sorry for the World War II bombing raids which destroyed the German city of Dresden. The monarch is visiting Berlin next week and Germanyâs most popular newspaper, Bild
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Survivors of the Birmingham pub bombings joined more than 200 people at a special service to mark the 30th anniversary of one of mainland Britainâs worst terrorist atrocities today.