Europe has become a lightning rod in the United States lately, particularly with regard to the U.S.’ desire to stop ...

Ciano’s prognostication materialized. He actively lobbied Mussolini to withdrawal from the war and to sue for peace. Il Duce ...

The round-ups of Jews went so easily that a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, remarked: "The transports run so ...

About 150 years ago, a baby girl was born in the province of Pomerania in faraway Prussia, the most powerful state in the newly-formed German Empire. She was born on ...

Almost six years of bloodshed and brutality tore through Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, leaving an estimated 45 ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Dwight Moody being accepted into church membership, the election ...

The suicide of Hitler, long anticipated but shrouded in secrecy and confusion for decades, marked the symbolic end of the ...

The Second World War was not just won on the battlefield, but in seemingly marginal regions from Ireland to Iraq.

The discovery of coins and jewelry in the Czech Republic worth up to $680,000 raises a tantalizing mystery for historians and ...

American Miller and German Schaller only recently ... a Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was incarcerated in two Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald in northern Germany and Auschwitz in what ...

Ukraine’s tragic geography has long made it the target of imperial ambitions, epitomized by the prize of Crimea. As the war ...