Stripping himself of the Star of David that marked him as a Jew, he went underground with his family, living by his wits and ...

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Beneath the streets of Berlin, another world is waiting to be discovered. The Unterwelten Museum is dedicated to the ...

Most Germans realised long before Hitler’s self-immolation that the dictatorship had brought nothing but death and ...

The first episode of the series covers January-March 1945, which includes the battles of Iwo Jima and Manila, the firebombing ...

The words we are taught to recite on Anzac Day are “lest we forget” – by which we typically mean: remember the fallen. This ...

A 104-year-old World War II veteran has visited a police museum housed in a former aircraft factory. Retired Flight Lieutenant Colin Bell, who flew Mosquitos during the war, was given a special tour ...

President Trump, history is calling again. And it is offering you the chance to do what only the greatest leaders have ever ...

Adolf Hitler admitted that World War II was lost. By now, Hitler was in his infamous bunker and Soviet troops were marching on Berlin. Just two days prior, Hitler had celebrated his 56th birthday. It ...

Charlotte Grimshaw is a freelance writer based in Auckland. Last year in Berlin, I found my way to the site of the bunker ...

A former CIA operative is reviving a controversial theory suggesting Adolf Hitler escaped to Argentina with the help of the ...

The Battle of Nuremberg, one of the last American battles in Europe in World War II, saw the 7th Army engage in days of ...