During World War II, approximately 8,000 women were deported from France to Ravensbrück, Germany, the largest women's ...

Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the ...

World War 2 history buffs are just discovering a BBC Radio 4 audio drama based on the conflict that has them "gripped".

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of ...

A newly reissued book documents the dreams of Germans living under the Nazis, charting totalitarianism’s power over the ...

This violent act of erasure sought to both delegitimize and eradicate queer and transgender people from history itself. Milo Todd’s breathtaking debut, “The Lilac People,” unearths an essential ...

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them ...

Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...

The German government and Analena Baerbock’s Foreign Ministry are excluding Russia from the commemoration because they are ...

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best..." ...

The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to "instrumentalise" events marking the 80th anniversary of ...

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the Dachau concentration camp.