Thekwini Municipality renamed Edwin Swales Drive to Solomon Mahlangu Drive in 2007. Swales was a South African air force pilot.

After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...

On February 22 and 23 of 1945, Allied formations consisting of about 3,500 heavy bombers and 5,000 fighter/bomber aircraft rained hell all over Germany. The 15th and 8th US Air Forces, along with the ...

Accra, Oct. 6, GNA – In recent months, the world has been witnessing a significant but solemn celebration across many societies – commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of World War II (WWII).

LIVINGSTON — It’s been 70 years, but several pieces of art belonging to a German family — possibly removed by American soldiers at the end of World War II — have been returned to Germany, thanks to ...

History, like memory, is slippery. David Lan’s The Land of the Living – directed with typically restless energy by Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot; The Hours; The Reader) – ...

In 1935, the Nazis under Adolf Hitler introduced laws to discriminate against Germany's Jewish population, culminating in the Holocaust. Experts warn that the deadly ideology behind the laws has not ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan surrendered, launching an era of alliances and trade. Now, with memories of the war fading, so is the consensus on how to avoid a repeat.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance was accurate in saying that every major conflict in human history had ended with a negotiation. While Vance did not specify what he considered a "major conflict" or what ...

In World War II, both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. As the World War I armistice was being negotiated, Germany won small concessions, but the allies generally imposed their will, an ...

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord is the first of the award-winning Combat Mission game series. Initially released in 2000, it takes you along WWII's Western Front from Normandy 1944 to Germany 1945 as ...

Germany, 1945. Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII, is under the care of Ruth, a UN relief worker. Should she try to find his parents or leave him ...