In France, between 1941 and 1945, around 200,000 children are estimated to have been born from a union between a French woman ...
These roles allowed women to bypass the combat taboo. Yet they were still regarded as temporary, effectively excluding them ...
In early 1945, Adolf Hitler made his last visit to the front. Germany’s armies were collapsing, fuel was gone, and defeat was ...
Research by German scholars lifts the lid on Third Reich officials’ lingering influence as a recovering country desperate for experienced administrators looked the other way ...
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 ...
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The Supreme Court v. My Mother

After my mother escaped the Holocaust, she broke the law to save her family. Her immigration story is more pertinent today ...
From playing Royal Christmas broadcasts to increasing food rations, soldiers and citizens made a concerted effort to spread festive cheer during WW2 ...
THE head of MI6 declared a shadow war with Russia and vowed to hit back against tyrant Putin’s rampant campaign of sabotage.
David Nasaw thinks we owe Brokaw’s (and Ambrose’s and Spielberg’s) tale-telling and its legacy a second, and much more gimlet ...
Matt Matthews, a North Carolina pastor who grew up in Hampton, remembers his father, a Wythe resident, in a guest column on ...
The sky was the limit for fearless Second World War heroine Queenie Hall who enjoyed the flight of her life at the age of 102 ...
The terror attack on Sydney's Jewish festival bore all the defining hallmarks of Nazism – and is the latest proof that ...