Attached to Canadian and British forces, the first Americans to see ground combat in Europe witnessed disaster at Dieppe.

Eduardo Peniche came to the United States to obtain an education and became a decorated war veteran and proud American in the process.

Three groups were at the heart of post-war German fears of revenge: Jewish Holocaust survivors, Eastern European Displaced Persons, and American occupation officials.

How Soviet occupation policy in Austria took shape warrants more attention.

To ensure that “justice” was done at Nuremberg, American occupation officials set German war criminals free decades ahead of schedule.

When the war in Europe ended in the spring of 1945, Romani survivors were scattered, exhausted, and traumatized.

Just when you thought that most of the stories of the legendary all-black female military unit from World War II had been told, along comes the recent discovery that 14 of the 855 women from the “Six Triple Eight” have a final resting place at America’s most hallowed grounds, Arlington National Cemetery.

American jurists in occupied Germany developed international law with the concept of crimes against humanity, then grappled with its meaning.

Part III of the story of the Hesse Heist tells the story of the discovery and theft of the jewels.

This article looks at the experiences of four Black GIs—two in the European theater and two in the Pacific theater—in the Quartermaster Corps, the Army’s chief logistics branch.