On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis’ historic ...

Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. It's the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. It's also where a sad, ...

LONDON (AP) — Cities from London to Moscow will be awash with parades, flyovers and memorials this week as the world marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day — the day Nazi Germany ...

As World War 2 was in its final stages and the Allied forces were approaching the heart of the Third Reich, dozens of German ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...

World War II veteran Sgt. Dan Santagata fought in the Battle of the Bulge under Gen. George S. Patton. Stefano Giovannini The triumph of the 1944 allied invasion of Europe — secured 80 years ago this ...

FILE - Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early hours of May 18, 1945, just before he embarked for the United States ...