After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...
Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg. They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of ...
In the House of Commons Winston Churchill brushed off a few crumbs of optimism. Previously he had said that the knockout of Germany “may” require a few months of 1945. Last week, back from his Moscow ...
In the final days of April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched a relentless assault on Berlin, culminating in the fierce ...
On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...
2004-12-18T23:39:40-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ead/20041218234035002.jpgClip: Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 Clip: Armageddon: The Battle for ...