A German journalist has been tracing the footsteps of his great-grandfather, who was a prisoner of war in Japan during World War I.

Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova, whose leading role in the country's mass anti-government protests in 2020 ...

In Instagram posts, Nazi perpetrators are glorified, while their war crimes and role in the Holocaust are omitted. Numerous ...

The testimony appears in Lowy’s new book, Kalman & Leopold: Surviving Mengele’s Auschwitz, recently published to coincide with Jewish Book Week. Speaking from his home in Vancouver, Canada, Lowy ...

During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers. When some of these women were captured by German forces, they often faced ...

Four heroic dogs have been immortalised in bronze for the first war memorial of its kind in Britain. The National Military ...

While Hotel Exile covers similar ground to Patrick Bishop’s recent Paris ’44, Rogoyska’s use of the present tense throughout and her intricate detailing of the plight of ordinary folk buffeted by the ...

On the cold evening of Feb. 27, 1943, Charlotte Israel gathered with a small crowd of women on the Rosenstrasse, a narrow street in central Berlin. They were not Jewish, but their husbands were, and ...

The post-World War II film "Nuremberg," starring Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, arrived on Netflix this weekend. Here’s what to know about the real-life psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and the Nuremberg ...

Prominent Belarus opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova has picked up a prize for contributions to European unity that she was unable to collect while in prison ...

John Wayne is the epitome of the American tough guy, renowned for his roles in Westerns and war films. With his bold stance ...