Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...

Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a ...

As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some ...

Germany will station 5,000 troops in Lithuania by 2027, marking its first permanent foreign deployment since WWII. The ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Tens of thousands of children in the UK wrote to World War II veterans as part of a project aimed at teaching new generations ...

THE 80th anniversary of VE Day has prompted Libby Harding, of Leeming, to look out an illuminated letter of appreciation that Queen Elizabeth, ...

Two hikers stumbled across a hoard of gold and treasure which was hidden during World War II and is now worth roughly ... Austria-Hungary. Those had stamp marks from a reissue in 1921, which ...

The Channel Islands, which is marking Liberation Day on Friday and Saturday, were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two. From 1940-1945 Germans set up ...

Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) A worker of the German War ...