After the country was liberated in 1945, these 'German Girls' were accused of betraying their country, deprived of their civil rights, arrested, incarcerated without trial and even expelled from the country.

Greece's President is expected to raise the issue during a meeting this week with his German counterpart.

The letter, which bears a red “return to sender” stamp on its envelope, was sent to Otto Frank by an insurance company in 1942, while the family was in hiding.

A wildfire on the coast of eastern Ireland killed off some vegetation but resurrected a World War II relic.

Cyclist Gino Bartali helped around 800 Jews escape the holocaust because he smuggled fake documents in the frame of his bike. He pretended to be training but was carrying messages and photographs for passports to the Italian Resistance

An American tourist was charged and fined after bringing an unexploded World War Two shell to Vienna airport in her luggage

An Australian company published a series of photos and videos taken on a trip to Eastern Europe earlier this year in which models are seen posing in sunglasses at sites including the Flower Memorial at Jasenovac, a World War II-era death camp.

Anne Frank hid some rude jokes from her family, now they have been revealed to the world.

Tracing back to World War II shows many Latvian families divided by the battlefield, with relatives literally fighting on opposite sides — some on the side of the Waffen SS and others with the Red Army.

A large area in central Berlin is to be evacuated as authorities dispose of a World War Two bomb.

At least 26,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes in Paderborn, Germany, as authorities work to remove a 1.8 tonne World War II bomb from a garden.