In the final days of April 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched a relentless assault on Berlin, culminating in the fierce ...

One good turn, the saying goes, deserves another. The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

Shashank is away this week, so I’m stepping in to update you on “Archive 1945”, The Economist’s special project looking back on how we covered the end of the second world war. Since we started this ...

(L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a monument to Polish victims of World War II. Mrhal Jaromír/CTK/dpa Germany ...

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. The war would continue to rage in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania for six years, coming to an end in 1945.