In the methodical June 1944 slaughter, SS soldiers took the small village of Oradour-sur-Glane in central France by surprise and killed nearly all its inhabitants within a few hours. They killed ...

An 88-year-old former SS soldier has been charged in one of the most horrific massacres of World War II. The man, identified in court documents as “Werner C,” is alleged to have helped in the ...

The Battle of Itter Castle, fought on May 5, 1945, was a desperate fight to defend high-profile French captives—including former prime ministers, generals, and even a tennis champion—against fanatical ...

Soldiers place over U.S. flags at every gravesite as part of work at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., May 27, 2021. (Elizabeth Fraser/Army) MOUNT JOY, Pa. (AP) — Harold Billow, 99, the last ...

In a story that sheds light on the contribution of black Americans during World War II, historians are beginning to disentangle the mystery of what happened to 11 black soldiers in Wereth, Belgium ...

Volunteers from the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials honoring each of PA’s 73 soldiers who lost their lives in the SS Leopoldville tragedy.

transcript. Ex-SS Soldier at Auschwitz Sentenced A German court on Wednesday convicted Oskar Gröning, a 94-year-old former SS soldier, of complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews during World War II.

WW2 helmets found in France linked to SS massacre. ... The moment of surrender by men from the Royal Norfolk and Royal Scots battalions in 1940 was photographed by SS soldier Herbert Brunnegger.

Editor’s note: During World War II in Haarlem, Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family (father Casper, sisters Betsie and Nollie, brother Willem) actively hid Jews and Dutch boys whom SS ...

Krah, the AfD’s leading candidate in next month’s European elections, has already been banned from making public appearances by his party, following controversial comments about Nazi SS ...

MOUNT JOY, Pa. — Harold Billow, 99, the last known survivor of a World War II POW massacre during the Battle of the Bulge, will be laid to rest Thursday in Pennsylvania. Billow, who died May 17 ...

WW2 helmets found in France linked to SS massacre. ... his father Bill was one of only two men to survive the massacre after the soldiers surrendered on 27 May 1940. Katy Prickett.