Listener Rick Fuhry was researching his ancestry when he discovered a fascinating family connection to Milwaukee’s German ...
Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany’s larger states. The discovery was announced by the State Office for ...
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben did not arrive in America as a conqueror or a celebrated general with armies at his command. He ...
On Feb. 21, Sten Gould turns 100 years old. His wartime journals have preserved the voice of a soldier who copied Nazi morse code transmissions, walked through Hitler's bombed-out home and came home ...
Croatian Ustaše fascists practiced a brand of visceral, manual genocide that horrified even their own Nazi handlers during World War II.
In 1929, when the Italian state recognized the existence of the Vatican State, the guard was retained, although ordinary police protection was taken care of by the Papal Gendarmerie Corps, a separate ...
They spoke different languages and wore different uniforms but for four grueling days, U.S. and Italian soldiers operated under German standards to earn a foreign military badge few American troops ...
When my grandfather went to war in 1939, he didn't hesitate. Today, only 35% of Brits would do the same. What has changed in our national psyche?
Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the ...
Orbán is widely seen as the Kremlin's strongest ally in the E.U. and has deepened cooperation with Russia in defiance of the ...