More than 20,000 people were evacuated from Cologne's city center Wednesday after the bombs were unearthed Monday during ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end of colonialism across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Yet despite sharing ...

The city of Cologne, Germany, evacuated more than 20,000 people from its city center, after three unexploded bombs from World War II were found. That’s the largest evacuation the city has seen since ...

Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... are still lessons to learn from it, decades after the Allies declared victory in Europe on May ...

The dissident Kundera was writing behind the Iron Curtain after World War II about the importance of remembering: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting ...

The thanksgiving service in the Abbey began with a two-minute silence, which was also observed across the UK, to remember Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of World War II ...

ISAACSON: In the period after World War II, we create a bunch of institutions that are so innovative, the world had never seen it before. But you have the United Nations. You have, coming out of ...

Eighty years after World War Two ended, he is sounding a warning against the return of fascism. May 8 marks a solemn day in Europe as the continent commemorates the end of World War II ...

LONDON (AP) — Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most ... Hitler’s Nazi Germany had finally surrendered after a half-decade of invading other European powers and ...

Germany lost over 5 million soldiers in World War II. As battle lines shifted rapidly, many were buried in unmarked or forgotten graves, especially in places like Halbe, where one of the war’s ...

10 days after the Hollywood Canteen opened, Bob Hope broadcast his "Pepsodent" radio show there live. >> Amongst the various services that Hollywood provided during World War II was the Hollywood ...