Here’s What You Need to Remember: None of these alternatives would have guaranteed victory, but they at least would have offered Germany a chance. Whether “victory” would have been worth the cost in ...

In December of 2019, Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first official visit to Auschwitz. Standing at the site of the Birkenau death camp before a group of Holocaust survivors, the chancellor ...

Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

Key Point: History could have been very different for Germany. When it comes to alternative history, the Second World War is king. Dozens of books and wargames suggest how history would have changed ...

The Big Ideas: What Is History? After moments of great upheaval, scars can last for generations. By Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck is a writer. This personal reflection is part of a series called The ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.