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World War II

Dutch and U.S. flags decorate the graves at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten.

Generations of Dutch citizens still trek to the graves of US World War II soldiers

Conflict

Thousand of families in the Netherlands have adopted the graves of US soldiers killed there during World War II. And more than 100 Dutch citizens are on a waiting list to join the program.

The Soviet foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, saying farewell to his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop (right), after a visit to Berlin during the Nazi-Soviet alliance that lasted from 1939 to 1941.

This pact between Hitler and Stalin paved the way for WWII

Conflict
The barbed wire fence surrounding the labor camp at Auschwitz I. Johann Breyer says that he worked here as a guard during World War II and not at the nearby gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

After years in obscurity, a Philadelphia man stands accused as a Holocaust collaborator

Conflict & Justice
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