Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...

Almost six years of bloodshed and brutality tore through Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, leaving an estimated 45 ...

(The Conversation) — For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and professors from Munich and Hamburg formed a resistance ...

The anniversary of the end of the Nazi era comes at a pivotal time for Germans. The last of the survivors, liberators and ...

The German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War Two changed life in the islands and affected everyone. From ...

This month, May 8, marks V-E Day. For those veteran readers of this column, you may recognize that acronym, for the younger readers, perhaps not. It was, though, for millions of people, one of the ...

I believe that Hitler’s policy in Europe will not bring any benefit to the human race at all.” The initial fight against ...

The story of Irish Jews begins with journeys across the sea — from Kovno (modern-day Kaunas, Lithuania) to Cork City, where ...

On August 4, 1944, a group of German soldiers stormed into the premises of the Frank family’s business in Amsterdam. During ...

On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a ...

The suicide of Hitler, long anticipated but shrouded in secrecy and confusion for decades, marked the symbolic end of the ...

April 30, 1945, marked the end of Adolf Hitler's tumultuous and devastating reign over Nazi Germany, when he took his own ...