History comes to life at Tidioute’s World War II days on Saturday and Sunday as World War II reenactors swarm this small town ...

He received World War II books, even though he can’t read the ones written in Czech. The Embassy is mailing him a U.S. flag that flew there May 6, the 80th anniversary of U.S. troops liberating ...

It was supposed to be a routine mission. On April 10, 1944, Maj. Donald K. Willis, flying with the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, was tasked with escorting an Allied bombing run on a ...

At times during the occupation there was one German for every three islanders The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II. The mission – arranged in secret between a Swedish ...

Located in small German town, the Arolsen Archives returns Nazi-looted possessions to victims' relatives, helps estranged family members find each other through WWII-era documents ...

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany for 15 months.

Captivity survivor criticizes Red Cross in German Parliament Ohad Ben Ami, who was released in the most recent hostage deal, arrives at the German Parliament and meets with the German President: ...

The Red Cross, accused of not doing enough to help hostages in Gaza or Palestinian detainees in Israel, has defended itself in a rare statement outlining the limits of its role.

Residents are being directed to a shelter at Goetheschule, where the German Red Cross will be providing assistance. Deutsche Bahn railways is suspending rail traffic in the area starting at 10 p.m.

In the aftermath of World War II, ... such as when Gisela was notified by the German Red Cross that her mother and brother were still alive nearly twenty years since she had last seen them.