Once World War I ended, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade the nation from maintaining an air ...

The Brandenburgers were members of the special forces unit serving Nazi Germany during the Second World War. During the ...

Eminent scholar Roger Moorhouse recently spoke to Military Times to discuss his book, “Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War," ...

According to NPR, spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. From there, the word lived a harmless life, ...

Greek resistance to the Axis powers during the Second World War was the longest of all the nations of western Europe.

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Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis ... Instead, on that day, June 17, 1944, mother and daughter were reunited in a military prison under the ...

A push to revitalise Yiddish and its cultural traditions has gained momentum in Germany, the very place where the Nazi regime ...

More than six decades later, what has emerged is a military-narrational complex, in which war presents too good a story not to tell, over and over again. States, and now nonstate actors, have been ...

Fascism is an ultra-nationalist political ideology that rejects liberal democracy and values nation and race over the individual. It is strict ...

A Gilded Age baron invited Carl Alwin Schenck to manage his forest at the Biltmore Estate. The decision changed America's ...

I am confessing up front that I suffer from logophilia. That sounds serious, and it is. It means I love words. I explore ...