On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

After the Allied landings on Normandy and their subsequent trek into the German heartland, the retreating Wehrmacht blew up every bridge across the Rhine River. Every bridge. So imagine the surprise ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

I am a fan of Emmylou Harris. Whenever I hear her singing “Bang the Drum Slowly,” her ode to her father and his Second World ...

As the historian noted, on 21 November 1945 a secret resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was issued “On organizing trials of former servicemen of the ...

The destruction of European Jewry still reverberates for Jews today.

Kelly Neumann, a top Democrat fundraising boss in Michigan, honored her Nazi grandfather on Veterans Day. Now many have been ...

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day and we’re remembering when we came together to commemorate one of the worst events in human ...

A top Democratic fundraiser in Michigan is taking heat for a social media post in which she honored her grandfather, who ...

– Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020). Oral ...