Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

Invaded in June 1940, the Channel Islands were the only British territories to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two ... a child during the German occupation of Guernsey, tells Jenni ...

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being observed at the site of the former death camp ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town ... the stage for a post-war "cold" war ...

Only 17 at the outbreak of World War I ... to rebuild a democratic Germany. In 1947 he was appointed director of the Economic Council for the joint Anglo-U.S. occupation zone.

Meanwhile, one grave belongs to Major Hermann Görtz - a German spy who liaised with the IRA over a potential Nazi occupation ... World War. The cemetery played an important role in the post ...