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Armin E. Mruck, a Towson University history professor who survived World War II and devoted his career to connecting students ...

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

October 7th has been a date marked by transformative moments across history, spanning dramatic battles, groundbreaking ...

In Germany, history, demographics, and the left-right political divide are colliding in unexpected ways as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies. Germany’s commitment to Israel’s security has ...

October 3 marked by Germany's reunification, Chicago's first skyscraper start, and key historical events shaping Europe, ...

BERLIN, Sept. 9 -- The Jewish Museum, which opened here tonight sheathed in metal and shaped like a lightning bolt piercing the cityscape, is an architectural sermon: In the city that Adolf Hitler ...

The German declaration of war against the United States on Dec. 11, 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of World War II, and ...

IN THE fall of 1946 an American commission consisting of government officials, educators, and scientists toured Germany. (I have a particularly vivid memory of the striking personality of Reinhold ...