Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today, Counterpoint Press. The prosecutor at ...

But before they could leave, Eric and his father were arrested on Kristallnacht, along with 30,000 Jewish males from Germany and Austria. Because they were able to produce the Shanghai visas as proof ...

Jonathan Freedland's new book 'The Traitors Circle' examines the Solf Circle, a clandestine group including countesses, ...

Darkly influential, the cinema of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a powerful blend of art and propaganda. She’s now the ...

When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, guerrillas in northeast China had already fought eight winters in frigid blizzards, ...

When equating Donald Trump with the worst leaders in world history, the comparison invariably refers to ...

Elaine Merk Binder, one of the original Munchkins from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, has died at 94 according to her ...

A 20-year-old Sheridan woman made international headlines in 1931 when she drove 1,131 miles from Berlin to Moscow. She slept ...

In 1938, America was still clawing its way out of the Great Depression, while Europe braced for the possibility of yet another war. You’d think folks might have just given up, but people still found ...

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

A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, ...

Longevity gains made in the first half of the 20th century have significantly slowed down in recent decades, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal PNAS, analysed life ...