Operation Bernhard, as it's known, did take place in real life, although Tommy and the other fictional Peaky Blinders weren't ...

Sketches from the last decade of the lauded artist's life, exhibited for the first time in the U.S. at the Jewish Museum, ...

In 1940, France entered the war against Germany with the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 as one of its main fighters. Rare footage shows these aircraft in action during the early stages of the conflict. But ...

There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...

In June 1940 the military fighting in Western Europe faded, but a far larger crisis exploded as occupations triggered mass ...

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

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse.

His best-known work, “The Wall Jumper,” proved prescient in its contention that the country would remain split even after ...

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 ...

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

It is mid-October in the small southern German town of Burladingen, and the harvest of the day is apples — hundreds of them. Their peeling and cutting requires all hands on deck. At large tables ...

Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile. By Michael Moritz. Profile Books; 320 pages; £20. To be published in America by Pegasus Books in September; $29.95 TWO DECADES ago, in 2006, Sir ...