European markets pare losses after bright US open

World markets were mixed Tuesday as a rise in U.S. stocks, following upbeat trade data, helped European shares recover some of their earlier losses.

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Not many people know the story of the World War II conscientious objectors who publicly exposed the horrid conditions in America's mental hospitals. But it's an important part of the history of improving care for people with mental illness and mental retardation.

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A major work by French painter Paul Delaroche thought to have been virtually destroyed during a World War Two German air raid on London in 1941 has been unrolled and found to be in good condition.

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More than 30 years after Rita Breuer first began collecting Christmas knickknacks, selected objects from the family collection have gone on show at the National Socialism Documentation Center in Cologne.

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Thirty thousand people had signed a petition seeking an apology for Mr Turing, who was credited by Winston Churchill with making the biggest single contribution to the Allied victory in World War II.

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I think that if you want to try to run the case against World War II, your best route is not to deny that Hitler wanted war with Poland and Russia.

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LONDON (AP) -- It was one of the greatest mysteries of the collapse of the Third Reich. As Russian tanks moved into Berlin and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, his brutal and feared private secretary, Martin Bormann, simply vanished.

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British biological warfare scientists developed a poisoned dart to rain down on enemy troops during the second world war and used sewing machine needles to make prototypes.

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One bullet, one Jew. When Father Patrick Desbois heard that chilling Nazi maxim, he knew that he had to make a journey into one of the darkest corners of the Holocaust.

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Rare footage showing life in British prisoner of war camp is going on display at a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. There were over 1000 prisoner of war camps in Britain from World War II, but few moving pictures remain.

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The night was warm, dark and still. I lay on my back where I landed, afraid to make the slightest noise, not knowing whether the Germans were two yards or two miles away.

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A different kind of Veteran

Today America celebrates Veterans Day. Unfortunately, for many, other than increased air traffic, the day unfolds like any other without a moment's thought for its intended significance.

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(March 9) - In what's turned out to be a fascinating discovery, an amateur historian has unearthed footage of American and British troops practicing for D-Day.

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One of the pillars of German industry, the giant but debt-crippled Schaeffler car parts supplier, was accused yesterday of using hair shorn from at least 40,000 Auschwitz death camp prisoners to make textiles at its factories in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War.

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Nazi-hunters in Israel and Germany expressed doubts on Thursday about reports that Aribert Heim, dubbed "Dr Death" for killing concentration camp inmates with lethal injections to the heart, died in Cairo in 1992.

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The Holocaust has a landscape engraved in the mind's eye: barbed-wire fences, gas chambers, furnaces.

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Archival footage of the 1941 invasion of Belarus in the Soviet Union by Hitler's forces opens Defiance, the new movie by veteran American filmmaker Edward Zwick.

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Tom Cruise, who fails to assassinate Adolph Hitler in his new movie "Valkyrie," said he grew up really wanting to kill the Nazi leader.

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Some 200 works from an art collection in Aachen, Germany, disappeared into the former Soviet Union at the end of World War Two. Parts of these works have now surfaced in Ukraine, prompting a rare exchange initiative.

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Paul Hofmann, a Viennese who resisted the rise of Nazism in his homeland, acted as an informer for the Allies while serving on the staff of the German commandants of occupied Rome during World War II and later became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and a prolific a …

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In January 1942, barely a month after Pearl Harbor, the United States War Department sounded a call to enlist. It wasn't men they wanted — not this time. The Army was looking for pigeons.

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Ensign Robert G. Tills was gunned down in an incident on the second day of World War II. Over sixty years later, his body has been found, and he returns home. God bless him and grant him peace.

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On Dec. 7, 1941, 2,402 American servicemen were killed but 67 years and three generations later, memory fades. And some Japanese are actively trying to rewrite their country's history.

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Joza Karas, a musician and teacher who became a sleuth in his quarter-century-long search for the music and stories of composers who managed to do masterly work in a Nazi concentration camp, died on Friday in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82. His family announced the death.

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Now, generations later, the story of how caves and quarries became bomb shelters during the 1944 battle for the Normandy city of Caen is being brought alive by an amateur archaeologist, his photographer colleague, and the memories of survivors like Mangnan.

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