Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

As Germany marks 80 years since the end of World War II, one historic Berlin site is grappling with how to commemorate the ...

In Karlshorst, a leafy area of former East Berlin, stands the imposing building ... which often invokes the Soviet victory in World War II. The director of the museum, Jörg Morré, said he ...

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. V-E Day is also haunted by the specter of current-day conflict.

"History is the life of nations and of humanity," In War and Peace, the great writer Leo Tolstoy observed. This year marks ...

The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II - VE Day - is being celebrated today by local communities large and small.

Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and ...

In Kreuzberg, you'll find Checkpoint Charlie, the former border gate that marked the American sector of Berlin after World War II. Checkpoint ... oldest palaces in the area. Yet another famous ...

Daniel Brook: 7:30 p.m., Allways Lounge, 2240 St. Claude Ave. The author launches "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld ...

The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany) National ...

World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects ... British forces in Austria ordered that more than 20,000 anticommunist Yugoslav nationals in the area under their jurisdiction ...