Defendants in the dock at Nuremberg. Hermann Göring, his head propped on his fist, sits at far left. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / National Archives In the fall of 1945, a bit more than ...

North of the Netherlands lies the Wadden Sea, a protected natural area where low tide exposes sandbanks that connect the Dutch mainland to five islands. The smallest of these islands – Schiermonnikoog ...

A half-starved Nazi army of 90,000 men officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, bringing the curtain down on the bloodiest urban battle in history. They were the pathetic remains of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: CNN Films presents “Why We Dream,” which follows a group of centenarian WWII veterans as they make a pilgrimage to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Watch it now on ...