When nations clash, military prowess is important—but don’t forget about endurance, supply and alliances.
As the Polish campaign grinds toward its brutal conclusion, Kurt Meyer's regiment is thrown into the desperate, final assault on the Modlin fortress, where they encounter fanatical Polish resistance ...
Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...
“The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of law,” she wrote to her friend and fellow philosopher Karl Jaspers. “This guilt, in contrast to all criminal guilt, oversteps and shatters any ...
Their political beliefs and cultural commitments made them targets, while Jews across the continent became victims of relentless persecution that started with the rise of Nazism. Confronted with this ...