High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, and German soldiers lowered them respectfully into a large, freshly dug grave as a military band played a solemn tune.

A fighter pilot has recalled drinking with German soldiers to celebrate the end of World War Two. Noel Grugeon from Reading, Berkshire, known by loved ones as Bunny, was 19 years old on VE Day. When ...

World War II ended in Europe 80 years ago this Thursday, but the remains of German soldiers are still being found. As Germany's far-right AfD party rallies behind a broader effort to reframe ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. He was the Norfolk soldier who ended up in a German ditch on VE Day. John Lincoln of Drayton was wounded while serving with the 1st Battalion ...

In ruins, the town was liberated the day after the capitulation, the German soldiers having been ordered to hold out until the end.

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. He was the Norfolk soldier who ended up in a German ditch on VE Day. John Lincoln of Drayton was wounded while serving with the 1st ...

Schoolgirl Barbara Chiang, 12, watched the liberation from a Jersey harbour: “On my left was a German soldier on duty. He was standing with his rifle at attention and watching the ships.

In 1945, the head of Norway's largest mental hospital stated that women who had 'mated' with German soldiers were 'mental defectives', and concluded that 80 per cent of their progeny must be retarded.