In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands of paratroopers descended on the western coast, Allied forces scrambled to ...

"The Last Jew in Vinnitsa" is one of the starkest images of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Thanks to AI and hive minds, we ...

In this successful history, journalist Nagorski isolates 1941 as a turning point in world history, persuasively arguing it was the year Adolf Hitler’s political and military decisions ensured the ...

Silence reigns in the early morning of June 22, 1941. Within the thick walls of Brest Fortress, Soviet soldiers and their ...

Plot to murder Hitler -- "Unconditional surrender" -- "Fifty thousand Germans must be shot!" -- "On the back of an envelope" -- Terrible silence -- "One hundred ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef. The United States entered World War II as a result of the ...

Martin Lowenberg became a Jewish man, a bar mitzvah, 10 months before the Jews of Fulda were deported from Germany to Latvia, most of them to their deaths. The reading at his ceremony, from the ...

Multiple explosions were reported over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early Friday morning. Ukraine's foreign minister compared the attack to Nazi Germany's assault on the city in 1941. The attack came ...