Working in railways, mines, and mills caused thousands of deaths in the early 20th century and before. Photos show the ...
The medals belonged to Captain Leslie Scott, part of a special unit made up of just 360 Allied parachute-trained special forces volunteers, many of them German-speaking.
On Monday, the World War II Museum held a Holocaust remembrance event featuring one of the survivors. The event held in the ...
Two Greek Jewish boxers from Thessaloniki who survived the Nazi camps are profiled in "Holocaust Histories" podcast.
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
The question is no longer whether Trumpism will survive beyond Trump; the question is how Trumpism will continue to evolve ...
As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with ...
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys ...
See 10 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...
The picture has been widely shared for years and purportedly shows the aftermath of the explosion in the Japanese city.
A South African marine officer attends the opening of a memorial dedicated to more than 1,700 Black South African servicemen ...