On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...

Then darkness descended. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, marking the start of World War II in Europe. The Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944 and deported hundreds of thousands of its Jews to ...

He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the ...

After World War ... map shows the locations of some of the ghettos set up by the Nazis. ‘General Government’ refers to the area of Poland that was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1939.

The terms of the World War I-ending Treaty of Versailles required defeated Germany to grant the territories of West Prussia ...

Does the Holy See possess one of the world’s best intelligence services, and has it always been so? Every week, La Croix’s ...

Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe ... history of World War II movies.

The calm was tempered with some fear, but also with nostalgia, for few men believe that Europe will ever again be the Europe of Aug. 31, 1939—just ... With it, World War II began.

Wilhelm II. The Kaiser's ambitions for empire were a contributing factor in the outbreak of World War One. During the late 19th Century, Germany became an important power in European. As a nation ...

On a Kyiv rooftop in late November, a small group of volunteers in mismatched fatigues keep anxious watch. By day, all are judges in Ukraine’s highest courts, but once a fortnight they come ...

all continental European players became eligible for Team Europe. Due to World War II, the competition was held back from 1939-45. The 2001 matches were delayed till 2002 because of 9/11 ...