For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and ...

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The origins of the violin, built in 1941 by Franciszek 'Franz' Kempa while imprisoned by Nazis at Dachau in southern Germany, ...

Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to ...

Over the icy waters of the Arctic Circle, near the secluded fjord of Tromsø in northern Norway, thirty British Lancasters, ...

The spirals on the noses of German fighter planes in World War II weren't a fashion statement. They had some very practical ...

Elly Gotz, who grew up in Lithuania, was one of those prisoners. In 1941, Gotz was 13. He remembers the German Army arriving ...

The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry ...

Germany has excluded Russian and Belarusian ambassadors from a special parliamentary session marking the 80th anniversary of World War II's end. This decision reflects uneasy dynamics in recognizing ...

Germany has excluded the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus from a special session of the Bundestag set for May 8 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Reuters ...

Germany bars Russian, Belarusian ambassadors from WWII anniversary event, citing unease over Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine. Germany’s parliament has opted not to invite the ambassadors of Russia and ...