The Latest Breaking News from World War II

Formed in the aftermath of World War II to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, today NATO is the world's biggest and most powerful military alliance. This is what you need to know NATO and its role in the current Russia-Ukraine crisis.

January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day when people all around the world pay respect and remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

The fate of France’s Jews during World War II has become an unlikely topic of debate in the run-up to the French presidential election, exhumed by a revisionist candidate’s widely debunked claims that the Nazi-allied Vichy regime offered them protection. FRANCE 24 spoke to historian Jacques Sémelin, whose latest book…

The annual event remembers the six million Jews murdered at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

Kremlin has amassed forces to stage biggest incursion ‘since World War II’, says US president

The undersea volcano that erupted off the coast of Tonga this month was “hundreds of times” more powerful than the nuclear bomb that hit Hiroshima in World War II, according to NASA.

Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbor to hide a little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home during World War II

Kremlin has amassed forces to stage biggest incursion ‘since World War II’, says US president

Jack Mortimer fought during World War II but has to switch off his hot water every other night to keep bills down

A document has been found in Paris describing the circumstances under the Soviet occupation of Manchuria (see below) following Japan's defeat in World War II.

Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 was the first change of internationally recognized borders in Europe through military force since World War II.