Punctuality, efficiency, and a Nazi past? As Lufthansa turns 100, here’s a look at the German national airline’s brush with ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

Around 5,000 German troops, along with 105 Leopard 2A8 tanks, will soon be permanently stationed along Lithuania’s ...

I will never abandon you,” he told residents of Srebrenica amid sectarian armed conflict in Bosnia. The town later suffered ...

An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky. Nadezhda Azhgikhina Moscow—On January 26, The Nation’s correspondent Nadezhda Azhgikhina ...

The Brandenburgers were members of the special forces unit serving Nazi Germany during the Second World War. During the second world war, the Wehrmacht and ss overtook large parts of Europe in record ...

The British prime minister’s famous “Iron Curtain Speech” cautioned about authoritarianism and unchecked power — as we’re ...

A German civil society network, including women who lived through WWII, issues an urgent warning to Americans, drawing stark ...

The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924.

Conscription systems in the EU can be broadly classified into three models. Compulsory service, which is in place in Austria, ...

Paddling of the Hawaiian style, where an ama is rigged to a hull with two ʻiako, is now global — and has been for some time.

By late 1944, Nazi Germany was running out of time, fuel, pilots, and materials as Allied bombers pounded its cities and factories without resistance. In a last-ditch attempt to save the Luftwaffe, ...