The year is 1944. The second World War is in full swing and around the territories occupied by Nazi Germany, Jews and others considered undesirables by the Nazi regime are rounded up and sent to ...

The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency services said.

Stories Behind the Stars remembers Ralph Ambrose Landis, a Chambersburg Marine killed in action on Iwo Jima in 1945 during World War II.

Daniel Craig starred in the overlooked World War 2 movie, Defiance, after his James Bond debut; the movie is streaming for ...

A humble World War II veteran who died more than 40 years ago is about to be awarded the nation's highest honor. Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds of Knoxville, Tennessee, whose defiance of German captors in ...

Adjunct Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The Mellon Foundation has provided ...

As Russia invades Ukraine, unstable times make it hard for a divorcing Lithuanian couple to destabilize their own lives, in writer-director Andrius Blaževičius' intelligent, Chablis-dry comedy.

During World War II, Iowa housed over 25,000 German prisoners of war to address farm labor shortages. Initial fear and skepticism from Iowans gave way to community and trust as they worked alongside ...

KEEHI LAGOON MEMORIAL STATE PARK, Hawaii — The Army has posthumously commissioned seven University of Hawaii ROTC cadets of Japanese descent who were killed during World War II while fighting as ...

Paul Bierman receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...

ZURICH, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Two men and two women from Liechtenstein found dead this week all belonged to one family, police said on Thursday as they investigate the unusual case in the tiny Alpine ...