After the Allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944, German forces were forced into a desperate retreat. This video examines the battles that shattered their defenses, the encirclement at ...

As Christmas approached in December 1944, many Americans believed World War II in Europe was nearing its end. Allied armies had broken out of Normandy, liberated Paris, and pushed toward Germany. But ...

Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...

IN THE Treaty of Mutual Guarantee signed by Britain, Germany, Italy, France, and Belgium at Locarno in 1925, these states agreed to guarantee the status quo on the Franco-BelgoGerman frontiers, and to ...

Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday in Freiburg, Germany. Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of ...

Today’s column is the second of two on the deadly crash of a B-17G “American Maid” bomber in Nazi Germany and the memorial celebration held nearly 80 years later with the crew’s families and ...