In the final year of World War II, the United States Army deployed one of the strangest units of the war. Known as the 23rd ...

Pakistan has launched Operation Ghazab Lil Haq against the Afghan Taliban after Kabul claimed its forces killed 55 Pakistani soldiers in cross-border strikes. Islamabad disputes the casualty figures, ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...

Defendants in the dock at Nuremberg. Hermann Göring, his head propped on his fist, sits at far left. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / National Archives In the fall of 1945, a bit more than ...

In December 1944, during World War II, American forces were surrounded in the Belgian town of Bastogne during the Battle of ...

Teaching World War II effectively means resisting the temptation to begin with explosions, battles, and December 7, 1941. For ...

Learn how Germany's social market economy and fiscal strategies led to a post-WWII economic revival, making it a global powerhouse.

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...