Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of ...

Combining inventive genius with shrewd sales ability, the Mauser brothers, Paul and Wilhelm launched one of the world’s most famous small arms dynasties.

YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.

The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...

My father grew up in Berlin during World War II — picture shelling, scarcity, chaos, terror, death. The American boss of one ...

Reflecting on my recent trip to take part in the 80th anniversary commemoration of the Long March, the words that keep coming to my mind are “once in a lifetime.” The opportunity to be as connected to ...

The siege of Budapest, one of World War II’s longest urban battles, saw relentless street combat and left the city in ruins.

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

There are many abandoned buildings around the world, but few are as unusual as this one. Sitting high in the mountains, this UFO-like structure was once a symbol of political power. Now ...

As was the case with Chamberlain signing the Munich Agreement, Donald Trump's embrace of Vladmir Putin may have dire global consequences.

Bullish (Video) Cold War Berlin: Divided City, Shattered Lives Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 14, 2025 The film "Berlin: Outpost of Freedom" explores the ideological division of ...