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 ...

In early 1945, Germany’s defeat unfolded with unexpected speed as military defenses, government authority, and daily life began to break down almost simultaneously. As Soviet and Allied forces ...

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 ...

LONDON --MAY 8, 1945 -- German Foreign Minister Count Ludwig Schwerin von Krosigke announced Germany's unconditional surrender to his countrymen Monday and summoned them to a new life, guided by ...

Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945, by Florian Huber (Little, Brown Spark, 304 pp., $29.00) What happened to Germany immediately after World War II? This ...

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 German Historical Museum in Berlin (DHM) announced on Monday that it had returned a painting confiscated in the Soviet ...