The early Weimar Republic, established after the German Empire's defeat in World War I and the Kaiser's abdication, faced ...

Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the horrors of the ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Frank Dario Manfuga, a musician from Cuba, says it was an ad on Facebook recruiting for carpenters in Russia that led him to board a plane in January bound for Moscow. But when he landed, Manfuga says ...

World War II just ended in May 1945. Only a few weeks ago, the last and most intense fighting took place in Berlin. The Red Army surrounded the city and on May 2, the Berlin garrison surrendered. On ...

While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length by scholars, historians, and the like, there was another kind of camp that sprang up throughout the country during ...

Fourteen top-flight women’s football clubs have announced their decision to break away from the German Football Federation (DFB) and form a new joint organisation. In November, the clubs had reached ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

When I started teaching at Preston High School, one of the first books my English class read was The Diary of Anne Frank. I remember asking the class if they had any family stories of their own to ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

July 27th, 1945 the war in Europe was over, but for one Texas farmer, another battle had just begun. His enemy wasn’t a soldier, it was a dead tractor. With his wheat days away from ruin and the skies ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...