As World War 2 was in its final stages and the Allied forces were approaching the heart of the Third Reich, dozens of German ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.

(L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a monument to Polish victims of World War II. Mrhal Jaromír/CTK/dpa Germany ...

Shashank is away this week, so I’m stepping in to update you on “Archive 1945”, The Economist’s special project looking back on how we covered the end of the second world war. Since we started this ...

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. The war would continue to rage in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania for six years, coming to an end in 1945.