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Nazi Germany
Welsh designer Patrick Mulder created a haunting image of Vladimir Putin with Hitler's moustache.
The Nazis had stolen many of the recovered works from prominent Jewish collectors, raising lingering questions of restitution.
Editor's note: Charles Dellheim teaches history at Boston University. His recent work has focused on the role of Jews in modern culture.
The origins of today’s vast intelligence apparatus can be traced, in part, to the forgotten efforts of librarians and archivists to gather information during World War II
An unlikely band of American librarians and archivists mobilized during World War II in a forgotten war effort centered on books and documents.
My mom's possible role in the immolation of the Hindenburg
In 1937, I was a nine-year-old living on the fifth floor of a six-story walkup in the Bronx. One warm day, I went to open the kitchen window and I heard a great deal of noise from the street below. When I looked down, I saw a crowd of people staring up at the sky and pointing.
Not all the Germans of the Third Reich agreed with Hitler on the “Jewish question,” he wanted me to know.
It is hard for a journalist to admit that he didn’t know a story when he spent an evening with it. I had that experience, sad to say, because the story was no less than the imminent honeymoon of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
Outgunned by the Nazi raider, the Stephen Hopkins could have struck her colors. Instead she elected to fight
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