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The 'Safe Place for Science' program is welcoming US scholars fleeing Trump's restrictions on science and research.
Discover the fascinating and chilling story behind the Breitspurbahn, Nazi Germany’s ambitious plan to build an enormous broad-gauge railway system that many compare to the fictional train in ...
When do compromises turn into full-blown capitulation? Daniel Kehlmann's new novel draws on the true story of German film director G.W. Pabst.
Last week the Germans announced that along the coast of Occupied France, German engineers had completed a chain of submarine bases that would assure Germany's victory in the Battle of the ...
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards.
On May 8, 1945, Germany was defeated by the allied forces. The years following the collapse of the Nazi regime are often described in Germany as its "zero hour." But what was it really like? How ...
Filmmaker Evan Williams on the rise of the far-right party, AfD, and Germany’s efforts to balance political freedoms and threats from far-right extremism.
The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that it might be possible in 50 to 100 years.
Monday's ceremony in Poland is regarded as the likely last major observance of Auschwitz's liberation that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend, due to their advanced ages.
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...
Al Gore Attacks Trump in Fiery Speech, Says He Sees Parallels to Early Nazi Germany for This Reason "Our constitution, written by our founders, is intended to protect us against a threat identical ...