The Latest: World marks victory over Nazis 80 years on

80 years after the end of World War II: It is a bitter realization that the former allies who laid the first foundations of this prosperity are today the ones who will also destroy it.

VE Day 80: The world took less than a century to forget what WW2 was fought for

I shouldn’t need to tell you that the first Nazi book burning was against an institute of transgender health, but we’ve already forgotten. I shouldn’t need to explain that, after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, one of his first decrees was to crack down on gay and trans movements in Germany, eventually leading to the ransacking of over 25,000 books in the “Institut für Sexualwissenschaft” [Institute for Sexual Research…

This week's letters in The Impartial Reporter.

Dear Sir, Amid the 80th anniversary celebrations of the official end of the war in Europe, it’s sobering to think of the fact that racism, which…

World War II ended in Europe 80 years ago

Hitler's Nazi Germany surrendered after a half-decade of invading other European powers and propagating racial hatred that led to the Holocaust.

80 years ago World War II in Europe was over. Celebrating V-E Day is now tinged with some dread

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on the continent was on Thursday.

On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany capitulated and World War II came to an end, at least in Europe (the Japanese front remained).The world remembers on this date the surrender of the Third Reich and the end of an annihilating war as it was never seen: half Europe was in ruins.This ended the Nazi nightmare, the unprecedented plan of mass extermination that intoxicated the Germans with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.At the beginning of 1945 the Europ…