As the Eastern Front collapsed in 1945, German soldiers continued fighting with relentless determination even though defeat was inevitable. This video explains why the war’s final months were no ...

“Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia” by Max Egremont (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 359 pages, $28) Try to imagine that you have just survived a terrible war, and now that the war ...