According to Mike Godwin’s celebrated law, if an internet discussion goes on long enough, someone will inevitably compare ...

Shortly before he was hanged by the Nazis in 1945 at age 39, Dietrich Bonhoeffer reportedly told a fellow prisoner: "This is ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian executed by the Nazis, continues to be debated as a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance ...

Elżbieta Zawacka risked her life to rid her country of the Nazis. After the war, she was targeted by the Communist ...

Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

One of the greatest military rivalries of the ancient world featured dramatic scenes of elephants crossing the Alps, and a ...

Friedrich was the go-to for showing figures from behind – mainly, it transpires, because he wasn’t very good at faces ...

Opinions of past events change over time. Daniel Snowman’s new book asks fundamental questions about history, memory, fact ...

During World War Two, Andre Scheinmann became a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French while working undercover ...

Evans, a distinguished historian of modern Germany, examines the lives of 23 individuals in Nazi Germany to understand why Germans at different levels of society backed Hitler.