The Latest Breaking News from the Second World War

Dame Sheila, who was evacuated as a child during the Second World War, is due to appear at the VE day concert on Thursday.

80 years after George VI marked VE Day without wearing medals, Charles has done the same

Other lives: Dancer with Ballet Rambert during and after the second world war

Foreign audiences often associate German cinema with tragedy, trauma and death. Certainly, major historical events such as the second world war and the Fall of the Berlin Wall — cornerstones of German film — are present in this year’s selection at the 2025 German Film Festival.

The Trump administration’s decision to distance itself from Nato obligations signals a potential dismantling of the historical transatlantic order – and not merely in military terms. As the United States disengages from European affairs and cuts ties with what secretary of defense Pete Hegseth called Nato’s “pathetic” freeloaders, it is…

Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral three-day ceasefire to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Tove Jansson published her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, 80 years ago, in 1945. The story follows a family of hippo-like creatures called “Moomintrolls”, who become refugees after a flood washes away their home. Written at the end of the second world war, when millions were…

This Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. The following day, his body was publicly desecrated in Milan.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the largest armed Jewish uprising during the Second World War. Today, the daffodil has become a symbol of commemoration.