What on earth were the German people thinking during World War II? How could they support such a dreadful war of aggression? How could they tolerate — or actively support — the extermination of Jews ...

An Associated Press story last week told of blueprints of Auschwitz and their impact on Israeli officials. It had little play in many newspapers that day, as some editors were hard pressed to make ...

This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option ...

Award-winning author Sophie Hodorowicz Knab’s recent release, “Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945,” skillfully uncovers a tragic but overlooked chapter of ...

The Corsair, one of the newest U.S. Navy fighter planes, is shown in flight over an unknown location on Nov. 9, 1942 during World War II. Credit: Photo: AP In the past 10 years there have been scores ...

Few figures have been more thoroughly debated and dissected than Adolf Hitler. Today, one can only hope to retell his tale in clear prose, striking a proper balance between argument and narrative ...

The British-born historian Davies -- author of a best-selling history of Europe and several respected works on Poland -- has written two books to help compensate for what he sees as a parochial, ...

This 1945 map shows the partition of Germany by the Allied powers immediately after World War II. The dual German/English-language map is based on the German borders of 1937 and identifies which ...