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Shortly before Christmas 1938, with weeks of heavy snow carpeting the lands around her Highland home, the birdlike frame of an aristocratic lady sat down wearily at her piano and began to play.
In 1932, as the Nazis were securing power in Germany through the ballot box, a young German man by the name of Raimund Pretzel wrote the draft of a novel centered on a young couple worried about their ...
She swam for her life across the Aegean Sea. Now, refugee Olympian and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yusra Mardini is using her voice to uplift millions displaced by conflict.
The UN Genocide Convention came about as a reaction to the Holocaust. Now, Israel is being accused of violating it. International law experts are divided.
During the war, the Thuilliers’ yard became a makeshift studio. Eventually, they painted a backdrop featuring classical ...
Donald Rose, who died yesterday at 110, was born on Christmas Eve in 1914 and was just 25 when he signed up to fight on the ...
As we mark the anniversary of the second genocide of the 1990s, we should recognise that we will never be able to say ‘we did ...
Sidney Cotton, the inspiration for James Bond, developed aerial reconnaissance equipment to photograph German positions ...
NATO’s European members have agreed to massively hike defense spending. The move conforms to Donald Trump’s demands — but also reflects a German-led bid to revive its economy through massive ...
(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
As the war in Western Europe began reaching its inevitable conclusion, German efforts to expedite arms production led to some of the most unusual submachine guns in its arsenal.
V-E Day, on May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. But we're still learning that conflict's deepest lessons.