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Some of the hardest yards of the entire war... and they weren't on the Eastern Front
The French countryside inland of the D-Day beaches provided some of the toughest fighting terrain of WWII. The 'bocages' ...
Hitler's blood-thirsty decision to turn tide that sped up downfall of Nazis
In January 1945 the end of the Second World War looked hopeful, but was by no means guaranteed as the Nazis continued to ...
Remembering the Canadian soldiers who died on a mission of mercy at the close of the Second World War
There were celebrations in the Netherlands but fierce fighting in northern Germany as word of Nazi surrender spread. Eighty ...
AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe
AP reporters and photographers chronicled the Nazis' historic defeat 80 years ago this week. Allied forces brought World War ...
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Switzerland Today
The Second World War ended in Europe 80 years ago today and Switzerland had to find its place in the new world order.
80 years after the liberation from the Nazis, the Dutch commemorate the victims of war
Trains came to a halt, cars pulled to the side of the road and no plane arrived or departed in the Netherlands as the country went silent for two minutes to remember victims of war ...
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AP WAS THERE: Journalists chronicled the Nazi surrenders and end of World War II in Europe
REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this ... AP’s Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a French ...