Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...

The Balkans is not just a region-its the Valhalla of mythmaking. As Nazi forces overran Belgrade in April 1941, few could ...

Towards the end of the war, French men brought a German soldier they accused of having killed a baby ... while walls were covered with posters listing the names of survivors. “It was bureaucratic," ...

Ester Senot survived over a year at Auschwitz; when she returned to France weighing 32 kilograms, neighbors reacted with disbelief at her stories, said she was 'talking nonsense' ...

Bringing together the Imperial War Museum’s vast archives, expert voices and input from several charities who specialise in ...

In Moscow, the Russian word for 'Victory' - 'Pobeda' – is everywhere: on giant billboards, on posters in shop windows, even ...

A homegrown social justice warrior who spent years marinating in left-wing protests and propaganda — Is accused of executing two young Israeli diplomats in cold blood.

As France marked the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender to Allied forces on May 7, survivors of World War II ...

The Brazilian director’s stellar filmmaking and sharp storytelling make this portrait of life under dictatorship as politically incisive as it is entertaining.

E ighty years after the Allied powers accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender and ended the fighting in Europe, world ...