At the end of the Second World War, Europe lay in ruins. Germany especially was scarred and broken. Famine and economic turmoil threatened the continent. So, too, did the rise of communism. What ...

Foreign embassies have been disinvited from an annual Washington event commemorating the end of World War II in Europe this week, after a group of European embassies protested the organizers ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday criticised Russia’s “historical lies” over the Ukraine war, as he marked the Nazi defeat that ended World War II in Europe 80 years ago.

May 8 marks 80 years since the close of the European theater in World War II, when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies.. The fighting in Europe stopped when the Chief of Staff of the German ...

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...

May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. After the D-Day landings in Normandy, France – codenamed Operation Overlord – on June 6, 1944, it took almost ...

Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day ...