‘This is Ed Kennedy in Paris. The war is over, and I am going to dictate: Germany has surrendered unconditionally.’ These are the words that ended World War II in the West, but they ruined the life of ...

In April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on the Ruhr and German defenses collapsed, Captain Albert Ernst found himself ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early ...

A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...

“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 ...

On this day 80 years ago, Long Islanders celebrated victory as German forces ended fighting in Europe by surrendering unconditionally to the allies, an occasion memorialized by space-pressed newspaper ...

Adolf Hitler was dead. Germany was surrendering. The war was over — at least, it was in Europe. Despite six years of military action, entire nations laid to waste and millions of soldiers, sailors and ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis’ historic ...