The plush restaurant of a London five-star hotel is a strange place for the Holocaust to become personal. But that is where ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Tens of thousands of Jews and other victims and enemies of the Nazi German regime, my parents and Anne Frank among them, ...

A proposal by officials at Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway system, is serving up a potential train wreck of gargantuan proportions when it comes to preserving the memory of ...

For the first time in the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, a woman has been ordained at its altar of power, signifying a major cultural ...

In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded because most of the prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp had bellies that were ...

In the final months of World War II, German tank crews encountered an American weapon they had never been warned about. This film follows the arrival of the M26 Pershing and the German armored crews ...

In August 1944, while the renowned physicist Albert Einstein was living in comfort and safety in his adopted America, his first cousin Robert was hiding out in the woods in Nazi-occupied Italy. As a ...

In April 1945, as American forces pushed deep into central Germany, a handful of newly built King Tiger tanks made a final stand in the ruins of Kassel. Crewed by inexperienced teenagers and cut off ...

MANILA, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- In the heart of the Philippine capital, the Memorare Manila Monument, erected to honor the over 100,000 civilians slaughtered in 1945, stands in stark contrast to recent ...

On Jan 27, 1945, the Nazi extermination camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau were liberated by Allied forces. Only then did the ...