No one at Staff Sgt. Russell O. Chitwood's funeral actually knew him. No family members cried near the casket, no family ...

In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a ...

A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were ...

West Germany’s educational reforms in the 1960s and ‘70s show that gaps in knowledge can sometimes create opportunity for ...

As Matti Friedman demonstrates in his riveting new book, one of Israel’s greatest legends is also riddled with mysteries and ...

According to an April 10 press release, The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt.

While April 15 is synonymous with the income tax filing day deadline, it’s also a significant date for several historical ...

Topics such as sexual assault have been difficult for survivors and historians to write about, even decades after the war.

A Stockton WWII pilot missing since 1944 has been accounted for. 2nd Lt. Donald Durand will be buried in California after identification.

A World War II pilot from Hot Springs who was only recently identified after more than 80 years was buried on Saturday with ...

For 63 years, Martin Vogel longed for information about how his only brother -- his best friend and a fellow U.S. soldier -- died in World War II. He knew that Bernard "Jack" Vogel had tried to escape ...