No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines. But the Omaha lad had a big problem. Even after his 17th birthday ...

After World War II, the German writer Bertolt Brecht returned to his defeated and broken country. A well-known free thinker, he had fled the Nazi Reich in the 1930s. Brecht soon learned to his ...

Gleichschaltung was the process by which the Nazis seized control of pre-WWII Germany. History seems to be repeating itself today. Gleichschaltung was the process of the Nazi Party taking control ...

First introduced during the Spanish Civil War, the Messerschmitt Bf-109 became Germany’s most extensively produced fighter aircraft in WWII, with an estimated production of approximately 34,000 ...

“When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim,” the German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter remarked in ...

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany—For 20 years, Stefan Diete, a lab chemist at an oil refinery in this western Germany town, was a member of a far-left party with Communist roots. In this month’s ...

The German chancellor’s visit to Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, the Prime Minister’s countryside retreat, was supposed to demonstrate thawing relations between Britain and the Continent ahead ...

More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location has finally been confirmed, Brazil's navy has revealed. The historic vessel ...

German cars are popular in the United States, but U.S. cars are not as prevalent on German roads. One reason: tiny European streets and parking spots. By Melissa Eddy Reporting from Berlin It is a ...

one of World War II’s few remaining members of the original ... when he shot down three German aircraft in a single day. He became just one of four Tuskegee Airmen to achieve such a feat.

WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members ... a risk of being torpedoed and possibly sunk by the German submarines patrolling the area.

of Germany's unwritten agreement - dubbed the 'firewall' - not to work with the far right at the national level, which has been in place since World War II. After the rally kicked off just outside ...