World War II Story Briefs

For most of World War II, Germany provided its citizens with newsreel updates on the wars progress. This one depicts the invasion, and fall, of Belgiu...

Wolf’s Lair, one of Hitler’s bunker-headquarters which he used during World War II, is also known by its German name:  Wolfsschanze.L...

James O'Donnell's book The Bunker is about the last days of the Third Reichbased on extensive eyewitness interviews and documents.

Allied forces searching for Nazi scientists discovered a hidden nuclear reactor and the world's first fighter jet developed under Hitler's rule.

The day after he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, in December of 1986, Elie Wiesel gave a Nobel lecture entitled "Hope, Despair and Memory."

Hugh Alexander, portrayed by Matthew Goode in "The Imitation Game," was a British chess champion who was recruited to be a code breaker at Bletchely P...

After the USS Indianapolis delivered the component parts of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, she was torpedoed by I-58, a Japanese subm...

After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.

What actually happened in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II?

This German photograph, depicting Norwegian children “Getting Acquainted with the Invaders,” reportedly appeared in American newspapers fo...

Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, an aviation pioneer with impressive flying credentials, was a supporter of the Tuskegee Airmen and their 99th Pursuit Squadr...

As Japanese forces continued their final assault on Corregidor, an American corporal named Irving Strobing was sending messages from deep inside a tun...