After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up ...

In April 1945, the Red Army launched a decisive assault across the Oder-Neisse line, advancing relentlessly toward Berlin.

Nuremberg, often called ‘history’s greatest trial’, officially opened on8 1945. It held senior Nazi leaders to account for ...

A ceasefire is an agreed-upon temporary cessation of hostilities, allowing for negotiation and the delivery of humanitarian aid. It has no legal definition under international law. As Israel and ...

An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the ...

Photos have a way of immortalizing history in its rawest form, capturing the feelings, hardships, and victories in ways words ...

Decades later, Ilse's case remains a topic of discussion and speculation. In 2023, Tomaz Jardim released his book Ilse Koch ...

Another war, another city, another century. My father just wanted someone to talk to. His new acquaintance carried the secret ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.

History, like memory, is slippery. David Lan’s The Land of the Living – directed with typically restless energy by Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot; The Hours; The Reader) – ...