The Red Army surrounded the city and on May 2, the Berlin garrison surrendered. On May 8, the unconditional surrender of the ...

The new permanent exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn brings 80 years of German history to life, including the post ...

Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where ...

Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

A friend of mine recently sent me a copy of Sen. Tom Cotton’s book, “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China.” It’s a slim ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

“The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of law,” she wrote to her friend and fellow philosopher Karl Jaspers. “This guilt, in contrast to all criminal guilt, oversteps and shatters any ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

Like most Americans, Christine Kuehn always mourned the tragedy at Pearl Harbor, haunted by the some 2,400 souls who perished ...

Russell Crowe’s Nuremberg has only grossed half of the total haul of Daniel Craig’s forgotten WW2 thriller Defiance.

Films tend to reflect our anxieties. So it’s not a coincidence that we’re getting so many Holocaust-themed movies at the same ...

Infamous for Hitler’s mass Nazi Party rallies and the post-World War II international war crimes trials, the German city of Nuremberg is stepping out of the Third Reich’s long shadow by holding close ...