For VE Day, a historian looks back on what we should remember and what we've forgotten about the day the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's surrender.

Research finds that people "living near concentration camps... were more likely to conform to the beliefs system of the regime. And we think this was because of cognitive dissonance."

After WWII, Stalin tried open foreign policy, but his diplomatic failures led to the Iron Curtain dividing Europe during the Cold-War, a historian argues.

Researchers hunting for new pesticides came across DFDT, and soon found that German scientists in WWII had beaten them to it.

When asked to rate their country's contributions to World War II, people from both sides consistently overestimate their nation's sacrifice.

Sand from a 1988 visit to Omaha Beach—site of the ferocious D-Day invasion—reveals that traces of the battle remain there long after June 6, 1944.