Relatives waited outside El Rodeo prison in Miranda, Venezuela, after the government said it was releasing a “significant ...

The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly ...

My mother, grandmother, and grandfather arrived in New York on the S.S. Drottningholm in October 1939. Just about everyone ...

Beneath the barbed wire of a German camp, a tunnel became the prisoners’ only hope. Guy Martin enters this world of cramped ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement ...

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

The narrow road through the Masurian countryside winds alongside shimmering lakes and mossy swamps. It passes through sleepy ...

Fourteen top-flight women’s football clubs have announced their decision to break away from the German Football Federation (DFB) and form a new joint organisation. In November, the clubs had reached ...

When I started teaching at Preston High School, one of the first books my English class read was The Diary of Anne Frank. I remember asking the class if they had any family stories of their own to ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

(WGHP) — It’s hard, in today’s “Pax Americana,” to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the end of World War II. Few felt it like a young German woman who had gotten ...