World war II

Russia's Embassy to the U.K. shared its thoughts on who fought whom in the early months of WWII. The internet took issue with a few things.

A Russian senator has even suggested that Polish politicians in favor of the law should be placed under sanctions.

First-hand accounts of the battle, stored in a London Museum, show the horror that has stayed with soldiers long after they were liberated.

This couple, both 99, have been married for 80 years.

Soviet victory did not require help from Allies, the majority of Russians believe.

Should Moscow pay Vilnius, or Vilnius pay Moscow, for World War II?

Can you score ten out of ten in our Memorial Day Quiz?

Verdun Hayes broke the record of Canadian Armand Gendreau for oldest tandem skydive.

The Lorenz cypher was more complex than the Enigma code, famously cracked by Alan Turing

Antoni Macierewicz delivered a speech commemorating the end of World War II in Europe.

Russia had 72 aircraft scheduled to perform a ceremonial flyover but cloud cover made it too dangerous.

The Kremlin has called for initiatives at home and abroad to spread Russian history, particularly regarding its role in World War II and defeating the Nazis.

Poland has provoked controversy with its restitution laws that remain from the Communist era.

The event follows a successful mock up of the 1941-42 Battle for Moscow.

Driving a tank to Red Square just got less confusing—for now.

Resistance Radio, a "Man in the High Castle" project, guesses what tunes and talk radio would have sounded like in an alternate history.

An onion skin carbon copy of one of his lists is being offered for $2.4 million.

The novelist's latest book, the nonfiction title "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," was published in the U.S. on Tuesday.

The annexation of Crimea ranks above Yury Gagarin's flight and the works of Russia's great writers, in pride index.

Poland was one of the first countries to suffer the atrocities of the Nazi war machine in World War II.

The massacre of Nanjing is one of the most painful events in Sino-Japanese history.

Hollingworth was cunning, smart, charming and an impeccably fast reporter who broke one of the first glass ceilings long before the phrase was coined.

Regional stakes high given North Korea's threat to test an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Hollingworth's reporting of the outbreak of war was one of the greatest scoops of all time.

The issue of "comfort women" has been a longstanding sticking point in Tokyo-Seoul relations.

Citizens of Axis nations living in America became enemy aliens in WW2.

The scandal has overshadowed celebrations on one of the country's biggest national holidays.

The joint practice at the Misawa Air Base will be the first time Japan's air force trains with a foreign force other than the United States.

Both countries' parliaments voted to consider the Soviet-Nazi pact as the reason for the war.

Martha and Waitstill Sharp's grandson, Artemis Joukowsky, co-directed the documentary with Ken Burns.