When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

After months of disputes, Chancellor Olaf Scholz ousted one of his governing partners, adding to the challenges for Europe ...

Morton Katz of Hartford, a 105-year-old WWII veteran, tells of indelible sights he saw from N. Africa to Italy, France, and ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...

Jeremiah P. Mahoney was killed in a pitched battle with German forces near Reipertswiller, France, in early 1945. New technology finally brought closure.

World War II saw the emergence of some groundbreaking jet fighters that revolutionized aerial warfare. The Messerschmitt Me ...

Both Leo and Huth fulfilled roles that in many ways were typical for women in the vastly different political systems that governed Germany during its decades of division following the country’s defeat ...

New World War II epic Bonhoeffer, about the Nazi resistance spy who was part of the Hitler assassination plot, has received a UK release date. Check out the trailer.

In the play, Anne Being Frank reimagines the story of the celebrated diarist. It asks, if Frank lived to adulthood, would she have kept the same hopeful outlook about human nature?

Andrew Carnegie was a hard-working man in his forties when he enlisted by accident during a partying night with siblings, ...

Recently I read a book titled "Hank and Jim," which told of the lifelong friendship between actors Henry Fonda and Jimmy ...