Why the Only American Killed on Hitler’s Direct Order ‘Couldn’t Turn Her Back on Germany’ When Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the...
Before VE Day, This Soldier Wrote Home on Hitler's Stationery The Million Letters Campaign seeks to find and preserve at least one million articles of correspondence from every U.S...
Harvey Keitel Stars in a New Adaptation of the Best-Selling Book 'Tattooist of Auschwitz' An upcoming television adaptation might help make up for what the source material lacked when "The Tattooist of Auschwitz"...
Operation Gunnerside: The Daring Norwegian Commando Raid that Ended Nazi Atomic Dreams Without Firing a Shot Neither the United States nor Germany would end up completing an atomic bomb while the war in Europe raged, but the Allies...
This Czech Knight Resisted Nazi Aggression When the World Abandoned His Country Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also...
How Did Hitler Die? Among conspiracy theories is the claim that Adolf Hitler did not die in his Berlin bunker but escaped Berlin and found refuge...
Hitler's Aborted Last Stand: WWII's Unexpected Ending The outcome of the war could have turned out differently had Hitler been able to stage a last-ditch defense in the Alps.
'Blitzed': How Drugs Fueled the Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany The German medical community recklessly used an untested drug. The fact that the drug was methamphetamine makes the story all...
The Last World War II U-Boat Commander Has Died at 105 Kapitanleutnant Reinhard Hardegen was one of the few German "Unterseeboot" commanders to survive the war.
'That's Our Land': Homeless Veterans in LA Hail Court Ruling Ordering VA to Use Campus for Housing The class-action suit was filed in November 2022 by the nonprofit Public Counsel law firm on behalf of 14 unhoused and...
Air Force Top Enlisted Leader Says Trainees Carrying Real Rifles at Boot Camp Is 'Desired End State' Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David Flosi said during a media roundtable at the annual Air and Space Forces...
Soldiers Set to Get New Deployment Bonus as High Operations Tempos Strain the Army Soldiers will receive an extra monthly bonus -- ranging from $210 to $450 per month, depending on rank -- for time away from...
Ellsworth Air Force Base Fires Second Commander in Just 2 Months Lt. Col. Carsten Stahr, commander of the 28th Force Support Squadron, was relieved from duty last week, a brief news release...
Marine Who Published Memoir About Alleged Sexual Abuse of Underage Recruit Faces Court-Martial The charges come nearly a year after Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Champagne published a book that described his own pursuit of a...