These roles allowed women to bypass the combat taboo. Yet they were still regarded as temporary, effectively excluding them ...

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 ...

From playing Royal Christmas broadcasts to increasing food rations, soldiers and citizens made a concerted effort to spread festive cheer during WW2 ...

In France, between 1941 and 1945, around 200,000 children are estimated to have been born from a union between a French woman ...

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 ...

“If I had my way, I would hang all Jews in the country,” roared Ralph Ninfo in a 1938 as pro-Mussolini Italian American fascists and pro-Hitler German American Bund members met at a Bund rally in New ...

A new online history project shows how anxious Americans in the 1940s and ‘50s blamed comics for juvenile delinquency and ...

On April 14, 1945, U-1206 prowled 200 feet under the North Sea, limping on batteries while the crew fought engine problems in the final weeks of the war. Then a routine toilet flush turned into a ...

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

Germany’s president has laid a wreath at Coventry Cathedral in central England. The gesture on Friday was meant to ...

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...

NYON, Switzerland, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Germany will host the 2029 Women's European Championship, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said at the governing body's executive committee on Wednesday. Denmark ...