The dissident Kundera was writing behind the Iron Curtain after World War II about the importance of ... as he assaulted Omaha beach,” recalled Karl Schneider, former Green Beret and past ...

Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end ... the attack engineered by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was a success. The tragedy claimed the lives of 835 men and boys after ...

Wieland Wagner is credited with revitalizing the Bayreuth Festival after World War II with innovative stagings of operasImage: Karl Schnörrer/dpa/picture alliance In 2021, Wolfgang Brauneis ...

Of course, Hitler's ambition didn't stop there, and in March 1939, Germany occupied all of Czechoslovakia in violation of the Munich Agreement — and when the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939, it ...

The lessons from World War II are critical for understanding how to restore and maintain long-term peace and security in ...

Cpl. Alfred O. Guimond, a Silver Star recipient, was killed in 1945 shortly before Victory in Europe Day. Portland Press ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...

Harry Arlin, 97, William DeGroat,102, and Abe Meltzer, 99, participated in a ceremony at The Museum of American Armor in Old ...

Nebraska honored its World War II veterans on Thursday. Gov. Jim Pillen and the Department of Veterans Affairs presented recognition medals. KETV has shown you some of the medals given to the state's ...