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.
Airmen's Search for Remains Recalls Top Secret WWII Mission to Turn Planes into Flying Bombs U.S. airmen in England assisted with an archaeological dig aimed at finding the remains of an Army pilot lost there during...
Vets with Rare Lung Disease Could Get Benefits More Easily Under Proposed Changes, VA Says The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking steps to remove the specific challenges veterans with constrictive bronchiolitis...
US Aircraft Carrier in the Middle East Is Heading Home The Pentagon's rare move to keep two Navy aircraft carriers in the Middle East over the past several weeks has now finished...
Edwards Air Force Base Set to Get Service's First Commercial On-Base Apartment Complex The base, home to the 412th Test Wing, has faced housing issues for its more than 10,000 military and civilian personnel...
New CIA Workplace Assault Case Emerges as Spy Agency Shields Extent of Sexual Misconduct in Ranks A recent 648-page internal watchdog report that found systemic shortcomings in the CIA’s handling of complaints was...