In this video, we examine the final major offensive in Europe during World War II: the Battle of Berlin. From the Red Army’s relentless advance to the fall of the German capital, we explore the ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. The war would continue to rage in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania for six years, coming to an end in 1945.

Meet 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener, who comes to question not only the German propaganda being pushed out from Berlin, but his own loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

History is seldom tidy. Eras overlap and unfinished business from one period lingers into the next. World War II was a war like no other in the magnitude of its effects on the lives of people and the ...