Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for shielding more than 200 Jewish Americans in a ...

The bombing of Dresden remains a controversial period in the Allied air war over Europe.

Ordered at gunpoint to separate Jewish soldiers from other POWs, Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds told a German commander: "We ...

On the night of Feb. 18, 1945, American soldiers did something the German defenders believed impossible, mounting a ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

The Iron Cross is one of the most widely recognised military decorations throughout the world. The story behind its origins brings us back to the Napoleonic wars. In 1813, Prussian King Frederick ...

Newark Advocate veterans columnist Doug Stout explores the story of Warren E. Sams, a Licking County soldier killed in action ...

Deep in Poland’s Owl Mountains, Książ Castle pulls in visitors with its fairytale architecture but hides a network of Nazi ...

An exhibition that focuses on the evolution of Luxembourg’s army will run at the National Museum of Military History in ...

Europe, as the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk recently wrote, has ended a long “vacation from history.” We have crossed the threshold into a gloomier era that is once again characterized by power ...

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

A Polish Jesuit used disguises and cunning to save Jews from the Holocaust, refusing three chances to escape his own ...