In early 1945, Germany’s defeat unfolded with unexpected speed as military defenses, government authority, and daily life ...

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The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

THE former Secretary of the Treasury sets down in this compact volume the famous “Morgenthau Plan" for handling defeated Germany, and the supporting argument for it. He includes in the preface a ...

The stockpile of German ammunition left in Norway in 1945 could have been cleared and dismantled by the Germans. Norway ...

HAPPY over the radio’s midnight news that Japan would surrender, my husband and I drove up to the Air Transport Command at Bonnington Airport, where I was to take plane for Frankfurt, Germany. I was ...