What on earth were the German people thinking during World War II? How could they support such a dreadful war of aggression? How could they tolerate — or actively support — the extermination of Jews ...

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

Award-winning author Sophie Hodorowicz Knab’s recent release, “Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945,” skillfully uncovers a tragic but overlooked chapter of ...

This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option ...

Few figures have been more thoroughly debated and dissected than Adolf Hitler. Today, one can only hope to retell his tale in clear prose, striking a proper balance between argument and narrative ...

The war weighs on Ilse Thiele's mind, sitting in a floral armchair in her Berlin salon, with television constantly broadcasting Ukrainian news. “All memories come back”, admits this 85-year-old ...

How a people takes to defeat has been a staple of historical inquiry since ancient times, and in this gut-wrenching work, Cambridge University historian Stargardt (Witnesses of War) examines the ...

BERLIN – A timeline of the career of Helmut Schmidt: — Dec. 23, 1918: Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt born in Hamburg, Germany. — 1939-1945: Serves periodically as a soldier during World War II, ...

The British-born historian Davies -- author of a best-selling history of Europe and several respected works on Poland -- has written two books to help compensate for what he sees as a parochial, ...

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