In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...

Viewed from the perspective of 1939, Germany’s defeat in World War II was not surprising. From the outset, it was plain to planners on all sides that Germany lacked the global reach and economic ...

Multiple explosions were reported over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday morning. Ukraine's foreign minister compared the attack to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941. The attack came ...

In this successful history, journalist Nagorski isolates 1941 as a turning point in world history, persuasively arguing it was the year Adolf Hitler’s political and military decisions ensured the ...

Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...

"Economics: Cornerstone of Steel". Time. 21 January 1946. Archived from the original on 1 November 2007. Retrieved 27 May 2014. Overy, Richard J. Historical Atlas of the Third Reich. London: Penguin ...

Germany and Italy formally joined Japan in war against the United States today and Adolf Hitler shouted that the Axis would "always strike the first blow." Hitler and Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini ...

Martin Lowenberg became a Jewish man, a bar mitzvah, 10 months before the Jews of Fulda were deported from Germany to Latvia, most of them to their deaths. The reading at his ceremony, from the ...