“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...

LONDON — — April 16, 1945: The Soviet Red Army begins its final assault on Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany. — April 28: Former Italian fascist premier Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian ...

In the aftermath of Stalingrad, captured German officers revealed the brutal truth to Soviet interrogators. They admitted they knew they were doomed and were sacrificed to buy time, yet a drilled-in ...