Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a saintly, courageous figure, of major historical significance. Those are ...

This is the first of two parts I am allergic to birthday celebrations. Nevertheless, my Williamsburg friends organized an elaborate gathering on my 99th birthday. In fact, if they had followed the ...

Bohoeffer imposes a wholly anachronistic modern comprehension of the Holocaust as Nazism’s defining crime, as if this will ...

Last night, we were treated to a litany of grievance, political bulls---, and lies. Of particular note was Trump’s ...

My fellow octogenarians remember when their parents, aunts and uncles went to war against Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, who were ultra right-wing dictators and bullies bent on reshaping the world ...

Nazi Germany’s feared U-boat fleet suffered a crushing blow as seven submarines were hunted down in a single day ...

Viewers “awake” to see their outstretched legs on the ground of a dirt-floor shack, before “blinking” and reappearing in a field, holding a basket of cotton, as other enslaved people toil ...

The Red Army moving up through the Balkans made the Germans abandon the railroad project and relocate the slave laborers toward the Hungarian heartland. We arrived at Budapest on Oct. 15, 1944, the ...

The Hitler Youth had existed since 1926 ... The Nazis hanged 13 young adults without trial in Cologne in 1944, among them Edelweiss Pirates, in a place that is marked by a commemorative mural today.

Germany's jet aircraft were a nasty shock to Allied bomber crews in 1944, as they flew by at incredible speeds tearing into their formations with deadly 30mm cannon fire. But these jets ...