6th June 1944: Allied commander in chief General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) talks to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division about to take off for the D-Day landings in France.

Perhaps the most visible symbol of Germany’s division was the Berlin Wall, a 96-mile partition that cut through Berlin. East German authorities built the wall in 1961 in order to prevent East ...

Following the Allies' invasion of Normandy and the subsequent expulsion of German forces from France and Belgium in the summer and fall of 1944, Hitler devised an all-out offensive to retake the ...

HAMBURG, Germany, March 31 (Reuters) - King Charles laid a wreath in memory of the victims of the allied bombing in World War Two during a visit to Hamburg's St Nikolai memorial, the remains of a ...

Perhaps the most visible symbol of Germany’s division was the Berlin Wall, a 96-mile partition that cut through Berlin. East German authorities built the wall in 1961 in order to prevent East ...

The Allied answer was despatched by the Council of Ambassadors at Paris, which is charged with carrying out the terms of the Versailles Treaty. At a special session, hastily summoned, Marchal Foch ...

But once the victorious allies occupied a devastated Germany, witnessed its moonscape ruined by massive bombing and house-to-house fighting, and discovered that their “ally” Russia’s Joseph ...

Seventy years after the Allies firebombed the east German city of Dresden, Germany remembered the tens of thousands who were burned alive with a sombre church service and a silent human chain to ...