The Wings of the North Air Museum hosts a free Feb. 5 lecture on World War II daylight bombing raids over Berlin.

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 ...

As the Red Army closed in on Berlin in the spring of 1945, the war became a collapse rather than a battlefield. This final chapter follows one young Waffen-SS soldier through the city’s last days, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a ...

BERLIN — It's an iconic image of World War II: Berlin has fallen and Soviet soldiers are hoisting the red flag over the Reichstag. What most people don't realize, however, is that the photograph isn't ...

The commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe are taking place amidst the resurgence of global war and fascism. When the commanders-in-chief of the German armed ...

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...