As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

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

If history has taught us anything, it's that the atrocities of war never go down as civilization goes up. Advancements in industrialization and technology have enhanced our lives of leisure at home, ...

The University of North Dakota holds one of the most complete collections of records from the Nuremberg trials, the 13 trials held to prosecute those accused of carrying out the ...

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

In the spring of 1945, as Allied forces pushed toward the heart of Nazi Germany, a bold plan was launched to cross the ...

The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency services said.

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

A two-day symposium will explore more than just the "blood and guts" of Patton, but an in-depth exploration of one of the war ...

The war against Iran unleashed by the United States and Israel two weeks ago brings to the boil the clash of civilisations ...

After the ordnance was discovered, 18,000 people evacuated from the city. Experts worked for several hours to safely dispose ...

The liberation of Bergen-­Belsen concentration camp by British forces on April 15, 1945 was portrayed in the media of the time as the jewel in the crown of British victory over Nazi Germany. Arriving ...