When Canadians felt under threat of invasion during the Second World War, ordinary citizens mobilized to protect the home front, creating a civil defence corps of almost 280,000 people. Training after ...

If history has taught us anything, it's that the atrocities of war never go down as civilization goes up. Advancements in industrialization and technology have enhanced our lives of leisure at home, ...

The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to ...

The liberation of Bergen-­Belsen concentration camp by British forces on April 15, 1945 was portrayed in the media of the time as the jewel in the crown of British victory over Nazi Germany. Arriving ...

Watch the trailer for 'Amrum,' a drama set in the waning days of World War 2, directed by Fatih Akin and starring Diane Kruger.

Former professor Howard Russell was secretary general of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which tried 185 alleged war criminals after World War II.

The Nazi plot to ruin the British economy, depicted in the new Peaky Blinders film, might sound like the fanciful creation of an imaginative screenwriter – but it turns out the truth is even stranger ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Guest writer Richard Bevan explores how Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels used power to pursue affairs that contradicted ...

Barry Eichengreen explains why a book published in 1945, and all but ignored at the time, is redefining how we understand ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

A new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis offers an expanded view of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's ...