I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely ...

Britain hired close to 30,000 German soldiers, many from the principality of Hesse-Cassel, to augment its forces in America.

After he was forced off the German stage in 1934 by antisemitic hecklers, Leo Reuss found a daring way to hide in plain sight ...

The least controversial of the trio of Alien and Sedition Acts from 1798, the Alien Enemies Act, has caught the attention of ...

The European Union needs to rethink its support for Ukraine following Donald Trump's U.S. election victory, Hungarian Prime ...

World War One was one of the deadliest conflicts in human history, and it had a huge impact on the makeup of Europe.There are thought to have been around 40 million casualties as a result of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Bernhard Schlink’s home in Bielefeld was destroyed by Allied bombs during the second world war, a ...

The Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff-class ... her only significant action was ramming and sinking a German submarine during the First World War. However, there are still several warships that ...

As Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago on Nov. 9 1989, women look back at how different their lives ...

Military bloggers on Friday reported that Russian forces were moving closer to capturing a major town on the eastern front in the war in Ukraine as part of their drive westward to capture all of ...

The First World War was a war between empires for the spoils of colonialism. British, French and Russian Empires on one side, ...

German reprisals against Greek partisans also led to massacres of villagers at Kalavyrta and elsewhere on the mainland. Though Germany has apologized for Nazi-era crimes committed during the war, it ...