Disguised as a ceremonial visitor, the aging battleship Schleswig-Holstein entered the port of Danzig carrying hundreds of hidden troops. At dawn on September 1, 1939, her guns opened fire on the ...

A Jewish organization helped him flee as a teen. Years later as a US soldier, my father went in search of the parents he'd ...

European nations are constructing a defensive wall along NATO's eastern frontier as Western intelligence agencies warn Russia ...

The German pocket battleship Admiral Graph unleashed chaos across the South Atlantic in late 1939, sinking multiple British ...

After a parent dies, children commonly wish they had asked more questions about their family’s history. Anyone who has ever ...

An interview with IYSSE spokesperson Tamino Dreisam exposes the class interests behind Germany’s reintroduction of ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Germany, its leadership was absorbed ...

As Jane Fonda revives the Committee for the First Amendment, a look at the lesser-known Committee of 56, whose membership ...

Filipinos mourned the deaths of several local celebrities, who have touched the hearts of their legions of fans and ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

The Australian government has been accused of failing to heed warnings about antisemitic threats ahead of the deadly attack.

A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel.