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The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the ...

In Germany, history, demographics, and the left-right political divide are colliding in unexpected ways as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies. Germany’s commitment to Israel’s security has ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...

BERLIN, Sept. 9 -- The Jewish Museum, which opened here tonight sheathed in metal and shaped like a lightning bolt piercing the cityscape, is an architectural sermon: In the city that Adolf Hitler ...

The German declaration of war against the United States on Dec. 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of World War II, and ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Armin E. Mruck, a Towson University history professor who survived World War II and devoted his career to connecting students ...