Wartime artifacts were recovered from forested terrain around Berlin, ground contested during the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. These areas saw intense fighting between defending German forces — ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

On May 5th, 1945, just days after Hitler’s death and the collapse of the Nazi regime, one of the most unusual battles of the Second World War unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops, ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is opening "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue ...

In this particular instance there is a blurring of the ends of this war and how it may end — if it ends in our lifetime. That’s not an outlandish statement. What tugs on the sleeve of our ...

In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...

The First World War began on 28 July 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...

The city's biggest ever evacuation comes after the British flying bomb was discovered near a collapsed bridge.

Eighty years after Winston Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech, its warning against totalitarianism resonates amid modern ...

Some people are put on earth to do more than one big thing. Winston S. Churchill was such a man. If he had just been the new prime minister inspiring his people’s courage — the incarnation of Britain ...

In Warhead, Nicholas Wright turns the spotlight away from hard power to the human mind. A neuroscientist, who has spent years advising the Pentagon and the government, he argues fear, perception, bias ...

The post-World War II film "Nuremberg," starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, arrived on Netflix this weekend. Here’s what to know about the real-life psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and the Nuremberg ...