Dikotter probes beneath the surface of what some still see as a relatively benign early phase of Mao’s rule, when the Communists restored political order and the economy, combated social evils, and ...

On May 8, 1945 the guns finally fell silent. World War II, started by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Third Reich in 1939, was over. The unconditional surrender of Germany's armed forces, the Wehrmacht, brought ...

On 15 April 1945, British troops found more than 60,000 starving and seriously ill prisoners at the concentration camp in northern Germany. See how the Guardian reported events From David Woodward, ...

There are two important new exhibits to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the more ambitious being “1945—Defeat. Liberation. New Beginning.” at Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches ...

HALIFAX - As the Netherlands marks the 80th anniversary of the country’s liberation by the Canadian Army, more than 1,000 Canadian students will take part in events where they are expected to sense ...