Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, is making just three stops in the United States. The exhibition comes to ...

Post-war Germany has been seen as a model of 'transitional justice' in action, where the prosecution of Nazis, most prominently in the Nuremberg Trials, helped promote a transition to democracy.

See, for example, H-3018, 5 Jun 1943, in Dokumente zur Deutschlandpolitik, 27 vols. to date (Frankfurt am Main: Alfred Metzner Verlag, 1961–), series 1, vol. 4, p ...

THE ROAD from the Third Reich to modern Germany began in a field of rubble. The second world war had left behind enough of it to form a mountain 4,000 metres high, if it were piled up on the Nazi ...

Your Job In Germany is a short film made for the United States War Department in 1945 just before Victory in Europe Day (VE). It was shown to US soldiers about to go on occupation duty in Germany. The ...

Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as the “Victory traffic controller” and the “Brandenburg Madonna” after a photograph of her ...

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany set up over 44,000 concentration camps for a wide range of purposes, including forced labor and detention of people thought to be enemies of the Third Reich. Near the ...

In the dying days of the Second World War, German forces were in full retreat as the Russians approached from the East and British and American forces closed in too. Amid what seemed like certain ...