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Hitler released his failed plan to invade England 80 years ago today
Operation Sea Lion was an amphibious invasion intended to result in the German defeat of England.
By Harm Venhuizen
Nazi swastikas at veterans cemeteries prompt outrage, but VA calls them protected history
Gravestones on VA property of former German prisoners of war also display a reference to Adolf Hitler.
80th anniversary of Poland invasion: Why the memory is still a battleground
Sunday marks exactly 80 years since Nazi Germany invaded Poland, on Sept. 1, 1939. Poland and the region still struggle with what came after.
From first shot to the silence of peace: Timeline of World War I
Unleashed by an archduke’s assassination, World War I gradually entangled more and more countries, killing millions of soldiers and civilians and touching multiple continents.
Hitler in war, Merkel in peace: A train car for history
Adolf Hitler went in wartime for revenge. Angela Merkel plans a pilgrimage in the name of peace. Two German chancellors, with opposite aims and the same destination: a train car in a French forest.
By Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press