Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for the vanquished Germans, it marked the end of bombings and of Nazi rule. But it was also a time of deprivation and chaos, fear and soul-searching.

Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, is to hold a special ceremony on May 8 to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

Retired General Keith Kellogg, 80, has suggested that the country could be divided into 'zones' separately controlled by ...

It is estimated around 10,000 Nazis and other fascist war criminals escaped persecution for their roles in the Holocaust by fleeing to Argentina and other Latin American countries.

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen honored World War II veterans earlier this week. Pillen presented Clare Sward and Harold Cawley with medals during a ceremony Tuesday in Lincoln. It's part of an initiative to ...

a move that ended the war in Europe, months before Japan surrendered to the US to officially bring curtains to world war 2.

In Germany, the end of World War Two in 1945 was time of chaos, fear and soul-searching. Six ordinary Germans who lived through that period tell their stories. Show more On 8 May 1945 Britain ...