Unemployment in the 27-member EU is expected to reach 11.5 percent by 2010 - the highest level since World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The invasion is generally regarded as the beginning of World War II, which eventually involved almost all nations and killed tens of millions of people.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The march began under gray skies and light rain symbolically at the Holocaust Museum, where the murder of six million Jews in World War II is documented and remembered.

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

But Israeli experts training German pilots at an airbase that Britain's RAF used to fight the Germans in World War II is an historical irony not lost on Tomer Koriat, the deputy director of the training project.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"Historically it's one of the most important parts of the period of World War II in France,the roundup - the rafle du Vel dHiv - is a symbol of collaboration between the French police and the German occupying authorities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10