The medals belonged to Captain Leslie Scott, part of a special unit made up of just 360 Allied parachute-trained special forces volunteers, many of them German-speaking.

Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force (SAARF) wings are among the most scarce Allied airborne insignia of the Second World War ...

Deportation of Jews in Bielefeld, Germany, on Dec. 13, 1941. Courtesy City Archive Bielefeld, CC BY-SA Wolf Gruner, USC ...

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...

An exhibition of works evacuated from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art has opened at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.

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On Monday, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, with elderly survivors of Nazi atrocities ...

Toms River artist Toby Bergman took photos of Jewish families in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust and revived them in a ...

During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

U.S. Army investigators determined that Nicholson’s death was “officially condoned, if not directly ordered” by the Soviet leadership. The Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...