On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...
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 ...
A Mauser Karabiner 98k grenade launcher attachment was recovered at a late-war Eastern Front position alongside a bayonet scabbard and scattered infantry equipment. The site corresponds to fighting ...
As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...
Guest writer Richard Bevan explores how Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels used power to pursue affairs that contradicted ...