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 late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch the trailer for 'Amrum,' a drama set in the waning days of World War 2, directed by Fatih Akin and starring Diane Kruger.

The Nazi plot to ruin the British economy, depicted in the new Peaky Blinders film, might sound like the fanciful creation of an imaginative screenwriter – but it turns out the truth is even stranger ...

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

The Spitfire took its maiden flight 90 years ago this month. Hidden East Yorkshire's Sally Fairfax recalls growing up next door to a pilot who flew the plane in combat during the ...

Last week, my husband handed me a faded, folded copy of the Coeur d’Alene Press. It was dated Sept. 12, 2011. He found the paper among his father’s things. My father-in-law, Maj. Robert “Doug” Wood, ...

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

Are we nearly there yet? Despite President Trump declaring the Iran war is ’very complete’, EDWARD HUNT cautions that the enemy also gets a vote.

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