In April 1945, Soviet forces launched a massive assault on the heights west of the Oder, one of the last major defensive ...

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ...

After the cold war, public air-raid shelters were turned into nightclubs and galleries. Now anxiety over conflict is growing ...

A decorated German officer who had spent a year quietly betraying the regime he served. Yesterday’s enemy. Now the only man ...

Between April 16 and May 2, 1945, a vicious battle raged between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazi troops who remained in ...

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In his new book, Michael Calvin reveals how a small group of Jewish boys narrowly escaped the Holocaust’s machinery of death ...

Preservation experts say the move to develop the site reflects a tension in Germany between the need to preserve historically significant monuments and the need to build and modernize.

The bunker is part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed over a period of ten years, and which served as the headquarters of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe.

Their toxic hairs can trigger painful rashes and breathing problems. As the oak processionary moth spreads, the German capital is scrambling to respond. Berlin is facing a surge of oak processionary ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo’s further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage ...

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