Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler's food taster. Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent 2½ years as one of 15 young women who ...

Even in the case of Ukraine, NATO powers go to elaborate lengths to provide only defensive support and veto any attack on ...

At the end of April nineteen forty-five, the heart of Berlin was a landscape of shattered stone and choking smoke. The Red ...

June 1948 to September 1949, the Soviets placed a blockade around Berlin, hoping the Allies would abandon all of Berlin. The Royal Air Force and the U.S. Air Force formed the Berlin Airlift, and the U ...

A German Army officer activated a bomb disguised as two bottles of Cointreau orange liqueur, handed the package to an ...

Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

The German writer’s postwar works were ruthless in their condemnation of a country that, in its inability to reckon with ...

Intercepting bombers at night was a desperate and demanding mission. For the night fighter pilot the stakes were extremely ...

David Holloway, a Stanford University-based but Dublin-born historian of the nuclear age, is more cautious about how ...

A comprehensive guide to uranium, explaining its extraction, enrichment process, nuclear chain reactions, and its role in global geopolitics.

Ronnie Kasrils reviews MK’s 30-year armed struggle and its contribution to forcing the apartheid regime to the negotiating ...