So how did the war come to an end, and why does the US mark a different date to Europe?. Here is all you need to know. Experience VE Day 1945 as it happened with Metro’s live blog ...

Animated map showing the advances of Allied troops during the Second World War in Europe from July 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945, by 15-day intervals and showing the main cities liberated. VIDEOGRAPHIC ...

Immediately after the Second World War, how did six exhibitions attempt to make sense of the atrocities? In a new show, The Deutsches Historisches Museum explores how institutions in cities across ...

Countries across the world will be celebrating the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II. But this year’s events may be more bittersweet than in the past.

The front page on May 8, 1945, declares ‘War in Europe Over – Announcement will be made today.’ A World War II Spitfire plane on the lawn at Belfast City Hall marking VE day celebrations ...

Parades and memorials across Europe marking 80 years since Nazi Germany's surrender at the end of World War II. Eighty years ago today, Britons gathered around their radios. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

Today Europe commemorates the 80th anniversary of what is known as Victory in Europe (VE Day): the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Second World War.

Horthy’s independent streak eventually provoked the Nazis to invade Hungary in March 1944; thereafter the pace of persecution quickened. Within months some 400,000 Jews from the countryside had been ...

But as the world marks 80 years since the end of the war in Europe, an increasingly unstable geopolitical climate — and an administration in Washington bent on fighting a trade war with much of ...

Solemn ceremonies will be held at war memorials in towns and villages across France on Thursday as the country honours its dead and marks the 80th anniversary of the second World War Victory in ...