When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered on February 2, 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad was supposed to be over. It ...

A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

George Peck, 92, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who became a sales representative for the security and alarms systems division of Honeywell International, died Jan. 12 at his home in Fairfax County.

On this day 80 years ago, Long Islanders celebrated victory as German forces ended fighting in Europe by surrendering unconditionally to the allies, an occasion memorialized by space-pressed newspaper ...