World War II

Commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II are muted this year across the Old Continent as most countries remain under lockdown due to the pandemic.

Zinaida Korneva, 97, has launched a Youtube channel with videos in which he tells of her trials as a WWII Red Army officer.

May 8, 1945 saw the end of war declared in Europe as Nazi Germany was defeated, bringing jubilant celebrations.

Images of Russian war heroes are emerging across Nizhny Novgorod.

Italy celebrated Liberation Day on Saturday, marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the fascist dictatorship of war-time ruler Benito Mussolini.

A Swiss village may have to be evacuated for 10 years, after authorities decided a huge Second World War weapons store nearby needed to be removed

The wreath-laying ceremony with the participation of former prisoners and Polish president Andrzej Duda inaugurated the commemoration of the Auschwitz Nazi Death camp's liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.

Just 35 of the 776 Italian children sent to Auschwitz survived. Liliana Segre was one of them.

'We don't know why they attack (the graves), they are dead,' said one local in the community near Strasbourg.

Gladiator of Auschwitz: New film tells the story of Pole who boxed his way through hell

Hundreds of people took part in a re-enactment of the famous Battle of the Bulge to mark the 75th anniversary of the event that represented a turning point in World War Two.

More than 54,000 residents were evacuated from the southern Italian city of Brindisi as experts defused a British bomb dropped during WWII.

The Chancellor, accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during the visit, will bring a 60 million euro donation to help conserve the place where the Nazis ran their largest death camp.

Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.

More than 4,000 soldiers marched in Red Square to mark the 78th anniversary of the parade that sent Soviet fights to the front lines of World War Two.