The pact, signed by senior German officers, agreed a ceasefire on the British fronts in north west Germany, Denmark and Holland as from 8am on May 5. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth, File) Advertisement ...

Senior German officers, from left, Maj. Friedel, Rear Adm. Wagner, Adm. Hans-Georg Von Friedeburg, Gen. Eberhard Kinzel and Col. Pollek, arrive at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters ...

During World War II, American fighter pilots relied on specialized uniforms, survival gear, and flight equipment to withstand ...

Guns, uniforms, helmets and ammunition were all ... Graeme Delanoe said the items he collected helped tell the story of the German Occupation Graeme Delanoe is a collector of Occupation artefacts ...

Mervyn Kersh, a 100-year-old veteran from Britain, and Nick Janicki, 101, from Canada will light the flame in Wageningen, the central city where German officers signed the official surrender in ...

to shelter an escaped Russian officer. Following the war, Mr Le Druillenec gave testimony at the Belsen trials, offering harrowing evidence of the conditions he had survived. In December 1945 ...

LONDON (AP) — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed ...

Pigeons fly as Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrive to lay a wreath during a solemn annual national service to commemorate the war dead in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, May 4 ...

April 29: British Field Marshal Harold Alexander accepts the unconditional surrender of German and Italian forces in Italy and western Austria in a ceremony at the Palace of Caserta, north of Naples.