All news on the topic: World War 2

Dad-of-three David Massey, 41, converted his garage into a 1940s-inspired hideaway, complete with submarine doors and a whisky bar, so he can reminisce about 'happy times'

Goxhill Airbase once saw near-endless streams of fighter aircraft taking off and landing on its three runways but now the old base, which sits between the Humber Bridge and Immingham Docks, remains silent

German sleeper agents were preparing to act. At the appointed hour, they would emerge en masse across the UK with a devilish scheme

The Royal British Legion is organising an event at the National Memorial Arboretum to mark the sacrifices of the National Service generation

Londoners heard a loud noise this afternoon and, while someone claimed a WW2 bomb had been donated, the London Fire Brigade said the 'bang' is believed to have been thunder

The briefcase - also known as the nuclear football - was carried by an aide as the Russian leader arrived at Red Square in Moscow for today's Victory Day parade

Poland's border force reported that a Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet approached one of its aircraft without following the appropriate radio protocols and passed just five metres from the nose of the plane in a clear provocation

The family of Wilfred Slater has issued a desperate appeal to give the war hero the send-off he deserves for his funeral, after his siblings and parents all died before him

Hidden beneath a solicitor's chambers, Hull's secret vaults have a fascinating history and were used to house people escaping the Blitz during the Second World War

The chocolate egg was given to Sybil Cook in 1939 but with the Second World War looming, her uncle advised her to ration it slowly and savour every morsel

Art collector Laura Young bought the sculpture from a Goodwill store in Texas, America, for £28 but later discovered it's actually a 2,000-year-old ancient Roman work of art

Campaigners are calling on the PM to meet with victims after a report found the compensation scheme was “designed to fail those who were supposed to benefit”

The shameless woman is seen posing on the railway track in front of Auschwitz Birkenau in Poland, where more than 1 million people were murdered during World War 2

UK Yom HaShoah remembers the six million Jews killed in The Second World War and sees families light yellow candles - each one marking the life of someone who died

Sir Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode have been pictured filming their new movie, Freud's Last Session, which sees the actors play Sigmund Freud and C.S Lewis

In a recent episode of BBC series The Repair Shop, a guest brought in a pair of boots worn by his late father to be repaired.

John William Britton was captured by the Nazis at the start of World War II in Norway. Later in those sturdy boots he was forced to march for miles across Germany and parts of Poland

Benjamin Ferencz was just 27 when he became chief prosecutor for the US, bringing to justice members of the Einsatzgruppen - the Nazi death squads who murdered indiscriminately

Captain Bernard Gardiner, who flew 71 combat missions, was scrambled once more in the world’s only two-seat Hawker Hurricane

A date for the funeral of Peter Brown, one of the RAF's WW2 veterans who died alone has now been set for next month after the event became 'inundated' with requests to attend following an appeal for mourners

Twelve months ago the Government launched UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide sanctuary to those escaping war - with more than 200,000 people staying with host families and putting down new roots

Adolf Hitler's ancestral home in Austria was destroyed in 1938 amid swirling rumours about the German dictator's ancestry. The village of Döllersheim is now abandoned

Mobile phones had not yet been invented at the time the picture was taken in 1943, in Iceland's capital, Reykjavik. But some on social media have suspected a chap in the photo is in fact holding one

An English breakfast typically consists of sausages, bacon, eggs, beans, tomatoes and fried mushrooms and one group want to keep it that way with a ban on hash browns

A recent discussion on Twitter led by broadcaster Alastair Stewart showed that most people have no idea what the name ASDA really stands for