Many German families have faced the uncomfortable question: What did grandpa do during the war? - Decades of silence - While ...

The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. As the Nazis clamped down ...

“There are few buildings still in existence more associated with the horrors of the Holocaust than the entrance guard house at the gates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau,” said ...

The term concentration camp is often used to describe any detention site that existed in Nazi Germany after 1933 or in German-occupied Europe during World War II, but it is useful to differentiate ...

– Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020). Oral ...

But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier. This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship. The ...

In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War II. In 1941, she was evicted by a judge from the two sublet rooms ...

On September 22, 1940, the first ships carrying Wehrmacht soldiers from Nazi Germany arrived in Finland. The startled chief of police at the port city of Vaasa rang the ministry of the interior for ...

The Germans establish a ghetto in Lódz, Poland, and force the city's 200,000 Jews into it. Some 20,000 more Jews from other countries would be deported to Lódz in coming years. Lódz is one of more ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit, but Germany's ...