was a British military-led unit formed during World War 2. In early 1945 as the Allies closed in on Germany, concerns arose from the safety of prisoners of war (POW) in German hands. To address ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, ten thousand Allied POWs stepped off from Stalag Luft III in Żagań as the Nazi regime began forcibly evacuating its ...

“God suffered a great deal in every single person who was here. God suffered a great deal in this place,” Cardinal Rys added.

After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown to bits when the ... depicted in the 1963 movie The Great Escape, involved 76 British airmen, who tunneled out of Stalag Luft III near ...

Captain Leslie Scott's collection of Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force (SAARF) wings are among the most scarce Allied airborne insignia of the Second World War ...

The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...

About 50 survivors are joining King Charles and world leaders for commemorations including a service and speeches.

I never saw him again,' says the 94-year-old, German-born Holocaust survivor of the man who advised him to lie about his age, ...

Following a fierce tank battle, a WW II tanker managed to bamboozle both Italian and German troops into surrendering to a utensil.

Commemorations at the former death camp began when Poland’s president Andrzej Duda joined Auschwitz survivors laying wreaths ...

The first British monarch to visit the camp appeared touched with emotion as he joined mourners to remember its 1.1 million ...