The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr area of ...

On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

THE former Secretary of the Treasury sets down in this compact volume the famous “Morgenthau Plan" for handling defeated Germany, and the supporting argument for it. He includes in the preface a ...

Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945, by Florian Huber (Little, Brown Spark, 304 pp., $29.00) What happened to Germany immediately after World War II? This ...

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany set up over 44,000 concentration camps for a wide range of purposes, including forced labor and detention of people thought to be enemies of the Third Reich. Near the ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. It was a startling disappearing act, one for the ages. Right at the moment when Hitler killed ...

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of nationalism ...