Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism ...

The war was ending, but the fighting on the Eastern Front was at its most desperate. Germany's formidable Panther—arguably ...

Like so many German scientists, Engineer Manfred Gerlach, 55, came out of the wreckage of Hitler’s Reich better off than ever. When the Russian armies over ran East Germany in 1945. Gerlach was one of ...

Exploring the Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. The Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945 exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum, reveals how ...

Few home-grown 20th-century leaders prompt as much discomfort for the French as Philippe Pétain. The head of the Vichy regime, who signed the armistice with Germany on June 22nd 1940 and was ...

A Tennessee resident with German citizenship was removed to Germany for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. In ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...