American historian Alexander Motyl tackles a taboo subject in his new book A Russian in Berlin, a novel about memories of mass rape by Red Army troops of German women and pubescent girls in the summer ...

In April 1945, as Soviet armies smashed through Germany’s final defenses, Berlin prepared for the battle that would end the Third Reich. While artillery moved closer to the capital, Adolf Hitler made ...

In April 1945, Red Army forces launched a massive assault across the Oder-Neisse line, smashing through Germany’s final ...

BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller, the most senior Nazi whose fate has until now remained unknown, died in Berlin in 1945 and, in a chilling twist for an organizer of the Holocaust, ...

The Soviet Union attempted to stop food and supplies reaching the western zones of Berlin in 1948. Niday/Alamy For a short period immediately after the end of the war in May 1945, cooperation between ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism ...

An exhibition of 85+ works at the Minneapolis Institute of Art examines what happens when politics threaten free expression.

“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...

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 ...