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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Matt McKinnon-Pattison (second left) with partisans in Italy in 1944 (Collect/Blind Veterans UK/PA) On VE Day, Peter Knight, 98, of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, was a 17-year-old Royal Navy ...

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 ...