As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

Wartime artifacts were recovered from forested terrain around Berlin, ground contested during the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. These areas saw intense fighting between defending German forces — ...

My grandmother’s childhood in Weimar Germany was, at least as she described it, idyllic. She grew up in Grunewald, a leafy section of Berlin, swimming and boating in the district’s many lovely lakes.

Nazi Germany finally surrendered to the Allies in early May 1945, bringing World War II in Europe to a close. The emotional and physical toll of six years of brutal warfare weighed on their meeting in ...

Staff Writer When Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins on Wednesday night, it will mark the start of an annual period in which Jewish people around the world will take time to reflect on ...

Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct narrative with overheard quotes ...

The BBC has inked a deal with German distributor Autentic Distribution for the factual series Berlin 1945. Berlin 1945, which made its world premiere at the Berlin Filmfest this year, consists of 3×50 ...

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