In the 20th century, one head of state was able to garner the ardent approval and support of 99 percent of his country’s citizens. The leader was Adolf Hitler. It’s something to think about the next ...

BERLIN, May 18, 1940. — Going to the front tomorrow. At last will get a chance — maybe — to see how this German army colossus has been doing it, walking through Belgium, Holland, and now northern ...

The experience of living through a war can seem almost unimaginable for those who haven't been through it, but the diaries kept by real people can help bring it to life. Many important diaries kept by ...

At this time, 72 years ago, Allied forces were involved in fierce fighting against German troops during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. One of the deadliest and fiercest battles of the war in ...

We return to Normandy on June 6 and retrace a family story that turned out to be wrong for decades. The assumption was Sword ...

A diary that was in the possession of a secret society for decades after the end of World War II may contain a map detailing the location of more than 30 tons (28 metric tons) of gold that was hidden ...

TAMPA — Giselle Diehm-Dietrich vividly recalls her childhood. Even at age 90, she remembers the stench after British and then American pilots dropped bombs on her hometown of Mannheim, Germany, the ...