On Nov. 7, 1944, that convergence produced the only acknowledged direct combat between American and Soviet forces in World ...

I write as the daughter of German immigrants who survived Nazi Germany and came to America in the early 1950s. My father was conscripted in Germany, at 17 years of age, and fought in the German army ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, ANCHOR: Well, as democracy is threatened around the world, our next guest warns that danger lies closer to home, at school. In his latest book, American philosopher Jason Stanley ...

Except “none of that is true,” writes Jonathan Wiesen, Ph.D., professor and past chair of UAB’s Department of History in “Nazi Germany: Society, Culture and Politics,” a new book from Bloomsbury Press ...

Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has a history, one that he does not like to highlight. His Opa or grandfather was a Nazi and it is this Nazi past that he is trying to keep extremely quiet ...

German athlete Fritz Schilgen runs past German army soldiers with the Olympic torch on his way to lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Summer Olympics at the Olympiastadion ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.