The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...

Italy commemorated the end of its occupation by Nazi Germany in 1945 with a memorial service in Rome on Thursday. President Sergio Mattarella laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as Prime ...

Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as ...

Like so many German scientists, Engineer Manfred Gerlach, 55, came out of the wreckage of Hitler’s Reich better off than ever. When the Russian armies over ran East Germany in 1945. Gerlach was one of ...

Exploring the Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. The Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, reveals how ...