Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.

One year after the preacher took the pulpit, Hitler began his bombing campaign over London. Of the roughly 700 churches in ...

Christopher Columbus first learns about growing and harvesting maize (corn) from Cuba’s indigenous population. 1500: ...

Readers also comment on fallen decency in U.S. politics, a frightening historical comparison, evenings of magic in Forest ...

The fate of Central and Eastern Europe after the People’s Democracies’ post-1989 fall cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the EU as an extension of German imperialism. Berlin’s drive to ...

World War II began just five months after the Spanish Civil War ended. Here are five key ways the conflict in Spain foreshadowed what would become the largest and deadliest war in human history.

Director Paweł Pawlikowski’s austere account of the writer Thomas Mann's 1949 homecoming puts art, political idealism, and family loyalty on trial.

Holocaust survivor Lusia Rosenzweig Milch, 95, won a New York Emmy for an animated short telling how she escaped the Nazis as ...

A LINE of white helmets surrounds rows of suited and robed men in a dark courtroom – all eyes set on the 22 Nazi leaders ...