On March 18, 1945 22-year old Army Captain and Troy native Bill Chapman, Jr was the pilot of a B-24 bomber that was shot down ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

A powerful video in color of the devastated city of Berlin, shot in July 1945, just months after Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II, has been making the rounds online. The archival footage, ...

During World War II, tyranny and destruction swept over continents, and the very foundations of our freedom stood in peril.

When Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins on Wednesday night, it will mark the start of an annual period in which Jewish people around the world will take time to reflect on starting fresh in ...

The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

Professors, graduate student fellows, and other experts gathered last night for an interdisciplinary discussion of sexual violence in 1945 Berlin. Harvard Law School doctoral candidate Heidi C.