Before the guns fired, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union struck a shocking secret deal to divide Poland and rewrite the map of Europe. Behind closed doors in 1939, diplomacy masked a ruthless plan of ...

Even so, millions of people died in the war, and millions have died through the years, leaving very few veterans left today.

Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany ...

Jochen Hellbeck replies to a critic.

For over thirty years after World War II, German naval commanders believed their U-boats were defeated by Allied radar and[...] ...

Once, the US wanted the country deindustrialized but ultimately decided against it – now, the leaders in Berlin are doing it ...

An underground 20-mile complex of tunnels, shafts, underground railway stations and combat facilities built by the Nazis was ...

Pope Leo XIV approved the canonizations of 20th-century European martyrs killed “in hatred of the faith” under Nazi and ...

Nonfiction is a daunting genre to venture into, even for hardcore readers. However, the genre of nonfiction can also expose ...

Michael Smuss, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland who resisted the Nazis, has died aged 99 in Israel. He joined the ...

With deep sadness, we announce the passing of Eugenia Weskiel, a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, who died peacefully at 1:40 p.m. on October 23, 2025, at Mercy Health St. Rita’s ...

Michael Smuss, a Holocaust survivor and painter, passed away at 99. Born in 1926 in Poland, he fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, later using art to process trauma. His resistance efforts included ...