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Pope Francis has sent a video-message to the people of Japan condemning the use of nuclear weapons prior to his upcoming three-day visit to the country.

Adolf Hitler’s top hat, Eva Braun’s dresses and a silver-covered edition of “Mein Kampf” are among the items being put up for sale by a German auction house, prompting protests from Jewish leaders.

A 99-year-old former U.S. Air Force pilot who delivered chocolate for children behind the Iron Curtain has been honored for his service by the Royal British Legion.

A 95-year-old veteran who fought in World War II instead of finishing high school has finally achieved his dream of getting his high school diploma 74 years later.

America’s acquisition of Nazi-developed rocket technology was essential to its victory in the Cold War, explained Dean Reuter.

A Greek woman was reunited Sunday with two of the Jewish siblings she saved from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Yvette Lundy, a Resistance fighter who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps after helping Jews escape occupied France, has died aged 103, authorities said Sunday.

Expedition crews believe they have discovered two Japanese aircraft carriers that have been missing for nearly 80 years in the Pacific Ocean, which were sunk in the famed Battle of Midway.

The birthday surprises have not stopped pouring in for a World War II veteran in Watauga, Texas, who turned 100 years old on Monday.

A World War II veteran in Texas who asked for 100 birthday cards for his 100th birthday got a huge surprise on Monday.

Nazi officials preserved assets, weapons research, and personnel for a Fourth Reich that never came to be, explained Dean Reuter.

A World War II veteran who celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had some good advice to share with others on his special day. 

Berlin was the last place Helga Melmed had expected to see again. She was 14 when the Nazis forced her and her family onto a train from their home in the German capital to the Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland, in 1941.

One of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, died on Tuesday in California.

A man believed to be the oldest living American World War II veteran celebrated his 110th birthday on Thursday, reports said.

“This is the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime as a country, this on par with winning World War II,” he said. “Perhaps even more challenging than that.”

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked Poles for forgiveness on Sunday for German atrocities committed during World War II, during a speech in Wielun, the first city to be bombarded by Luftwaffe in 1939.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would cancel his trip to Poland, as Hurricane Dorian approaches Florida. “It looks like it could be a very very big one indeed,” Trump said.

A server at a Pennsylvania restaurant shared a special moment with a World War II veteran during his lunch break on Sunday. 

Five overdue medals were awarded to a 99-year-old World War II veteran on Wednesday afternoon in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 

A crowd of 50,000 people gathered in Hiroshima, Japan, on Tuesday to observe the 74th anniversary of the American bombing of the city with a nuclear weapon, the first use of an atomic bomb during war in history.

Kim Kyu-jong, a member of the Korean boy band SS501, apologized profusely this week after revealing that he is dating a Japanese woman, outraging South Koreans currently engaging in a boycott campaign against Japan for placing export controls on materials necessary for high-tech manufacturing, the Korea Times reported on Monday.

FLORENCE, Italy — A Dutch still-life painting, stolen by retreating Nazis and sent by a German soldier as a present to his wife, came back to a Florence museum on Friday, thanks largely to a relentless campaign by the Uffizi Galleries’ director, a German.

A strong argument in favor of the space program is the value of its “spinoffs.” Here we explore ten spinoffs, or discoveries and improvements, that came as a consequence of NASA’s work. 

The remains of 22 servicemen killed on a Japanese-controlled island during World War II returned home to U.S. soil on Thursday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said.

An unexploded American World War II bomb caused 16,000 people to be evacuated from the German city of Frankfurt on Monday morning after it was discovered by workers on a building site.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is not a fan of President Donald Trump, but she apparently agreed with his comparing her to Eva Peron, popularly known as Evita, the first lady of Argentina who championed the poor in the 1940s.

Germany announced Tuesday it will extend compensation to the surviving spouses of Holocaust survivors by nine months.

The World Holocaust Remembrance Center — Yad Vashem — in Israel is schooling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the truth about the Nazi concentration camps where millions of people were incarcerated and murdered during World War II.

President Donald Trump offered a tribute to American farmers on Tuesday, during a speech in Iowa.

AMSTERDAM — On the day Anne Frank would have turned 90, the museum dedicated to keeping alive her story has brought together schoolchildren and two of the Jewish diarist’s friends at the apartment where she lived with her family before going into hiding from Nazis who occupied the Netherlands during World War II.

An event commemorating the D-Day landings took a distinctly political turn Thursday after French president Emmanuel Macron used his speech to promote the European Union, the political bloc he aspires to turn into a military power.

The audience chuckled as Trump made his way across the stage, greeting the veterans, shaking their hands, and saluting.

President Donald Trump paid tribute to the soldiers who fought on D-Day, as part of the 75th anniversary of the historic battle.

PARIS, France — The French government said on Wednesday it had launched a project to return cultural artifacts stolen from Jews in World War II.

On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, over 160,000 brave men crossed the choppy waters of the English Channel to land in enemy-occupied France for the long-awaited liberation of “Fortress Europe.” The following photo essay is offered in their honor and in honor of the men and women of our Greatest Generation.