German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland's forgiveness for history's bloodiest conflict during a ceremony in the Polish city of Wielun, where the first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago.
Activists on Thursday urged the Netherlands to officially apologise to Dutch women targeted for reprisals because of their relations with German soldiers during the country's war-time occupation.
A German bomb disposal team on Thursday gave the all-clear after defusing an unexploded World War II bomb that forced a mass evacuation in the city of Dresden.
In the early days of the Bundesrepublik, a party arose that took on one of Hitler’s favourite generals as its figurehead. It briefly appeared to pose a threat to the fragile new democracy.
What happened to the 1.3 million Germans who went missing after the Second World War remains a mystery. But some of the loved ones of these missing persons haven't given up hope in finding some answers.
Thousands of people around Berlin's central railway station were evacuated on Friday to allow disposal experts to defuse
an unexploded World War II explosive unearthed on a building site.
Construction workers at a building site north of Berlin Hauptbahnhof have discovered a bomb from the Second World War. As the explosive is set to be defused on Friday, evacuations must take place and transport is likely to be affected.
From the evacuation of homes to the disruption of public transport, residents in Berlin will likely be affected on Friday as a bomb from the Second World War near the main station is set to be defused. But more than 70 years after the end of the war, finding such bombs is actually quite common.
Even today, nobody knows what happened to around 1.3 million Germans who went missing during the Second World War. The head of the organization that tries to find them admitted recently that their fates will never be cleared up.
Berlin has preserved countless traces of its Second World War destruction as chilling reminders of its militaristic past - few are more striking than Red Army graffiti left at the iconic Reichstag.
The question of whether Germany owes Poland war reparations - an issue recently revived by Warsaw - is a complex entanglement of historical, ethical, diplomatic and economic factors. Here are
the key elements.
The first Arab recognized by Israel's Holocaust memorial as a hero for risking his life to save Jews during the Second World War will finally be presented with the honour after a four-year delay.
The German town of Peenemuende,
population 250, has no school, no supermarket and none of the refugees who have streamed into the country in the last two years.
Poland and Germany should hold "serious talks" about World War II reparations, the Polish foreign minister said Monday, after his colleague said the figure could be as high as one trillion dollars.
Many air travellers were stuck at the yet unopened Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (BER) due to the defusing of a Second World War bomb on Tuesday evening at Tegel Airport in the north of the city.
Eight years after the fall of the Nazi regime, Poland decided to forego further reparations from Germany. But now there are renewed calls for those reparations to be paid.
A 51-year-old man is under investigation after his possibly illegal collection of Second World War munitions exploded on Monday, setting off a major police operation.
April 30th marks the 72nd anniversary of the double suicide of Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun. Now well-known, Braun led a troubled life at the side of the German leader, who kept his relationship to her strictly secret.
Urban legend has it that Britain tried to completely destroy the tiny German Island of Heligoland in April 1947. The truth is less spectacular, but the explosion was nonetheless enormous.
Adolf Hitler's personal telephone, which the Führer used to dictate many of his deadly Second World War commands, sold at auction on Sunday for $243,000, the US house selling it announced.
Fans of St Pauli football club have caused shock by unfurling a banner which mocked the victims of the firebombing of Dresden during the Second World War.
Jewish leaders and politicians have blasted the chair of the AfD’s Thuringia branch after he condemned the country's 'culture of remembering Nazi crimes' and criticized Berlin's Holocaust memorial.
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a French magazine reported Wednesday.
