In late February 1945, as the Third Reich struggled to hold itself together, the Allies launched one of the largest ...

I fear German power less than German inaction,” declared Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, in 2011, during Europe’s financial crisis. It was a remarkable statement coming from a Polish ...

On Feb. 4, 1789, George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Tens of thousands of Jews and other victims and enemies of the Nazi German regime, my parents and Anne Frank among them, ...

Bernard Offen, a 96-year-old survivor told participants that in today's world he sees "signs I know too well." ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place ...

The seven were students at the University of Hawaii and cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, on track to become Army ...

In the closing days of April 1945, the northern German command zone was a region of uncertainty, exhaustion and swiftly eroding order. Allied armies pressed in from the west and south, while Soviet ...