A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish ...

Peace may have been declared 80 years ago but reminders of the war remain across London.

A second world war gas mask has been found on a beach in Norfolk by a fossil hunter.

In “Children of Radium,” Joe Dunthorne explores the absurdity of family histories and his own clan’s complicated past.

In Ankara, Siegfried became co-director of a gas mask factory, a joint Turkish-German enterprise next door to a poison gas laboratory.

In 1914 a chemist called Fritz Haber offered his knowledge to the German Army. He soon began experimenting with chlorine gas to be used in trench warfare.

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.

To assemble a collection of some of the most unforgettable images of World War II, 24/7 Tempo reviewed historical photo archives from sources, including from Getty Images and the Library of Congress.

A Mickey Mouse gas mask was produced during WWII by the Sun Rubber Co. Walt Disney designed the masks. The Washington Post reported that the masks were meant to calm terrified children.