Human Interest

Drought reveals the remains of a Soviet WW2 plane in a Polish lake.

A network of tunnels carved out of chalk in just 100 days in the 1940s reveals fascinating insights into war-time life

Deep in the mountains of Bavaria is a concrete doorway set into the side of the mountain. Even in the height of summer, the thick steel door is cool to the...

Police searching in a villa in a wealthy German suburb have found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other illegal weaponry in the basement.

They were devised by Hollywood set designers, assembled like stage props and "inhabited" by actors, but entertainment was far from the agenda. Photographed

The stunning images show the World War Two planes surrounded by coral and fish as they sit - sometimes vertically - on the seabed more than seven decades after they were dumped there.

The aim of the foundation maintaining the site of the concentration camp is “to preserve authenticity.” It is a moral stance with specific curatorial challenges.

The Kittyhawk P-40 has been described as 'an aviation time capsule' after it was found almost perfectly preserved in the sands of the western desert in Egypt.

Day of Remembrance: Photographs of Japanese American Internment During World War II. A blog post at "Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos" on 2015-02-19.

The Spitfire was a single-seater fighter plane used by the RAF in World War Two. It was so successful that it remained in production for the duration of the war.

Just below the surface of Longbridge, an area just outside of Birmingham, UK, amidst the various residential redevelopments, lies a series of forgotten...

This map, annotated by Navy signalman Homer Bluford Clonts, tracks the geographical trajectory of the sailor's service on the USS Sheridan, the SS Young America, and the USS Eldorado, from 1943 to 1945.

Rare images of an underground munitions plant built by the Imperial Japanese Army toward the end of World War II have been found preserved at the U.S. Nati

On 7 May 1945 Grand Admiral Donitz, who was put in command of the Third Reich following Hitler’s suicide a week earlier, met with senior allied officers, from Britain, America, France and Russia, in Reims, France and offered a full surrender,...

Union Pacific sponsored a salvage drive in July 1942 to collect materials for the war effort. The growing pile of metal and rubber was in front of the Omaha city auditorium. All of the cars on the right are lined up to bring more contributions.

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Ethical questions raised over plans to redevelop unfinished Third Reich seaside complex into luxury holiday apartments

The former Czech village of Lidice is today a peaceful countryside, a neatly cropped rolling field punctuated by a postcard-cute babbling brook and a scatter of trees.  The massive lawn rolls over ...