The Battle of Itter Castle, fought on May 5, 1945, was a desperate fight to defend high-profile French captives—including former prime ministers, generals, and even a tennis champion—against fanatical ...

By early 1945, thousands of Allied prisoners of war held in Nazi Germany believed their captivity was nearly over. Instead, they were forced on a brutal three-month march across Germany before ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako met with the country's president and his wife as part of a weeklong visit that comes on ...