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

Built for observation, doomed by speed—the Henschel Hs 126 was in the worst place during the worst moments. It saw the opening of WWII from the sky, reporting what it couldn’t change. Discover how it ...

They flew biplanes made of canvas and wood, at night, with no parachutes — and struck terror into the German army. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the “Night Witches,” carried out over ...

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

Five times as many soldiers from Russia have been lost in Ukraine than in every single other Russian conflict since World War ...

"Coop" brings hidden WWII conscientious objector stories of life Jan. 18 at KHOI. It's a one-man show exploring courage, ...

In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.

A washed-up tennis pro gives lessons at a fancy hotel in the Canary Islands. But when he meets an elegant woman with an ...

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 ...

Boutique distributor Menemsha Films has acquired U.S. rights to “The Pianist's Choice,” a World War II-set romantic drama ...

Sound of Falling weaves together the experiences of four generations of women living in the same rural stretch of northern Germany, and the secrets that have accumulated over that time.

Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem was born in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, and is one of the youngest Holocaust ...