--- title: World War II | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/tag/world-war-ii/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/tag/world-war-ii/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # World War II ## World War II *  Mar 13, 2020 ## [Albert Einstein's 'Magnificent Birthday Gift'](https://time.com/5795646/albert-einstein-birthday-pi-day/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Olivia B. Waxman *  Feb 21, 2020 ## [The False Hope of the Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Photo](https://time.com/5788381/iwo-jima-photo/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Matthew Pressman and James J. Kimble *  Jan 28, 2020 ## [A Nazi U-Boat Tactic Stumped Allied Forces — Until a Retired British Naval Officer Designed a Game to Reveal How It Worked](https://time.com/5772665/uboat-wargames/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Simon Parkin *  Jan 27, 2020 ## [Germany Is Often Praised for Facing Up to Its Nazi Past. But Even There, the Memory of the Holocaust Is Still Up for Debate](https://time.com/5772360/german-holocaust-memory/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Jacob S. Eder *  Jan 24, 2020 ## [What Translating a Firsthand Account of Life in Auschwitz Taught Me About the Language of Suffering](https://time.com/5770574/translating-auschwitz-memoir/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by David Colmer *  Jan 22, 2020 ## [A Surprisingly Large Percentage of Young French People Don't Know About the Holocaust, Study Finds](https://time.com/5767184/holocaust-remembrance-france-survey/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Olivia B. Waxman *  Jan 14, 2020 ## [Hundreds of Britons Volunteered for a Diary-Keeping Project in 1937\. They Left an Invaluable Record of World War II](https://time.com/5764204/wwii-home-front-britain/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Julia Kelly *  Jan 7, 2020 ## [How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy](https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Peter Andreas *  Jan 3, 2020 ## [Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II](https://time.com/5752115/world-war-ii-librarians/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Kathy Peiss *  Jan 2, 2020 ## [Refugees Fleeing Nazi Germany Reshaped Hollywood. This Forgotten Woman Helped Make It Possible](https://time.com/5752128/salka-viertel-hollywood-refugees/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Donna Rifkind *  Dec 6, 2019 ## [What Happened to USS Arizona?](https://time.com/5745058/uss-arizona-after-pearl-harbor/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Sanya Mansoor *  Dec 4, 2019 ## [The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Stretched Beyond U.S. Borders](https://time.com/5743555/wwii-incarceration-japanese-latin-americans/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Erika Lee *  Nov 12, 2019 ## [The Persecution of the Roma Is Often Left Out of the Holocaust Story. Victims’ Families Are Fighting to Change That](https://time.com/5719540/roma-holocaust-remembrance/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Rachael Bunyan *  Nov 12, 2019 ## [The Man Who Died Pursuing Nazi Criminals More Than Four Decades After World War II Ended](https://time.com/5724452/office-special-investigation-austria-history/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Debbie Cenziper *  Oct 25, 2019 ## [How Israel’s Justice System Dealt With Alleged Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps—And Why That Still Matters Today](https://time.com/5710303/nazi-collaborator-trials/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Dan Porat ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/world-war-ii/","name":"World War II"}}]}] ```