When you picture German World War II military vehicles, you see steel giants rolling across Europe with cinematic precision.

This video examines the so-called “last ditch” units of 1945—makeshift Volkssturm militias, understrength divisions, and hastily reconstituted formations thrown into battle with limited training and ...

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How did Germans move from denial to reckoning with the Holocaust? This video traces Germany’s post-1945 psychological journey ...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has told German President Frank Walter Steinmeier that Germany could pay for the damage ...

Territorial concessions used to be common after wars. The formation of the UN after WWII was meant to put an end to this.

Prior to 1939, Poland was home to 3.3 million Jews, comprising about ten percent of its population. By his estimation, only about 30,000 survived the Nazi occupation on Polish soil. Upwards of 250,000 ...

It was May 1945, and the war in Europe was finally over. Hitler was dead, Nazi Germany had surrendered, the death camps were liberated and millions of people across the ...

Poland's President Karol Nawrocki told Germany’s Bild newspaper ahead of meetings in Berlin that Moscow directed a recent ...

The still lifes were part of the Schloss collection, which was seized in 1943. Auction house officials halted the sale when ...

It was May 1945, and the war in Europe was finally over. Hitler was dead, Nazi Germany had surrendered, the death camps were ...

RAF and allied personnel who had bailed out of a disabled aircraft successfully wearing a parachute made by the Irvin Air ...