This widely overlooked conflict changed world history forever. By Erin Kelly.

New history sheds light on why the Mossad didn’t capture Auschwitz’s ‘angel of death.’

What the South can learn from postwar Europe.

The fake typhus epidemic staged by Eugene Lazowski and Stasiek Matulewicz during World War II saved thousands of lives.

Guy Farrer was one of the volunteers who went to rescue British and French troops from advancing Germans in World War Two.

In any Balkan country the names of war criminals are well-known. But the names of people who have moved humanity in a positive direction are often hidden from the public eye. That is the case with Diana Budisavljevic, whose heroics in rescuing thousands of lives during World War II-era Croatia went unrecognized for more than half a century.

Keith Lowe’s The Fear and the Freedom is an intimate portrayal of how human beings carry on when their world has changed for ever. By John Gray.

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it. By John Woodrow Cox.

Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino, or “Tokyo Rose” as most people knew her was an American-born Japanese woman who famously hosted a Japanese radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II that was designed to broadcast propaganda.

During World War II, a man went to the doctor in Rozwadów, Poland with a unique complaint… By Matt Soniak. (Sept. 22, 2015)

Thousands of Poles sought shelter in Iran during World War II, but today Poland has slammed the door on refugees.

Many GIs had children with British women but under US laws black servicemen were usually refused permission to marry. So what happened to the children?

Esther Bubley documented the hordes of people who crowded onto buses amid wartime rationing.

Tens of thousands of Polish officers were secretly executed in the USSR during World War 2. The German occupying forces reported the first mass grave, in the village of Katyn in 1943, but Moscow only admitted to the killings in 1990. Dina Newman speaks to the son of one of the murdered officers, Waclaw Gasiorowski.

Before it became a T-shirt tossing sensation, the potato launcher was born to fight Nazis.

Inside the complex legacy of the print shop at Colorado’s Camp Amache. By Cara Giaimo.

Their identities may have been lost in time, but now the search is on for two women who scrawled their names inside the wing of a WWII-era fighter plane.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and some of the last survivors of Auschwitz paid homage to the victims of the Holocaust on Friday, 72 years after the Nazi death camp was liberated in the final throes of World War Two.

From fake news to covert ops, aspects of Russia’s alleged efforts to boost Trump echo tactics pioneered in 1940. By Steve Usdin.

A hot springs summit might solve the 70-year dispute over an isolated string of islands that Russian and Japanese nationalists both claim as their own.