In March 1945, Allied forces reached Germany’s last great natural barrier and crossed it in a way no one expected. This film ...

What can civilians do to stop, or at least provide aid to victims of war or genocide? By no means an academic question today, it can be best […] ...

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter ...

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

On June 22, 1941, the armed forces of Germany and its allies launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Stretching from ...

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

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. International Holocaust Memorial Day is observed across the world on January 27.

Candles flickered at dawn Tuesday at the vast Holocaust memorial in Berlin as people across Europe and beyond paused to ...

Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

BERLIN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged the world not to let the world order disintegrate ...

Franz Kafka’s literary legacy blossomed posthumously, inspiring readers worldwide to reflect deeply on the human condition. Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka emerged as one of the most influential ...