The general "led a life of adventure, fighting in almost every major American twentieth century conflict," the National World War II Museum notes. "He often led from the front, and he almost always ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism ...

THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...

Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US soldiers about to go on occupation duty in Germany. The ...

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, Germany, just months after the end of WWII. The exceptional procedure laid the ...

Exploring the Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. The Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, reveals how ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: On May 7, 1945, AP Paris bureau chief Edward Kennedy broke one of the biggest stories of that century: the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies at a former schoolhouse in ...

HAPPY over the radio’s midnight news that Japan would surrender, my husband and I drove up to the Air Transport Command at Bonnington Airport, where I was to take plane for Frankfurt, Germany. I was ...

In May 1945, the Red Army barreled into Berlin and captured the city, the final step in defeating the Third Reich and ending World War II in Europe. In one of the war’s most iconic images, Soviet ...

For years, social media users have shared a photo allegedly showing a U.S. soldier during World War II swapping out a German street sign reading "Adolf-Hitler-Str." for another reading "Roosevelt Blvd ...

Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp. Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ...