After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

On August 25 1939 a sudden reversal inside the German high command unleashed chaos as Wilhelm Canaris and his Abwehr officers ...

A lesson is that empires collapse when they can no longer afford to finance the security of their hinterlands and trade routes. Spain’s Golden Age came to an end when it could no longer fund the ...

In June we featured an interview with the author Olivia Campbell about her recent book Sisters in Science: How Four Women ...

How does the world confront the destruction of a war as brutal as World War II? How do nations begin to reckon with the cold ...

Eighty years ago, on 20 November, 1945, the historic trials of many leaders of the Nazi Third Reich began in Nuremberg, ...

Discover Germany’s 124-year-old Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the world’s only upside-down train. A must-visit engineering marvel ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

Adolf Hitler Uunona is set to win re-election to the Ompundja constituency, which is in Namibia’s Oshana region in the north.

Public outcry forces German auction house to pull sale of Nazi memorabilia, including a Yellow Star with "signs of wear." How ...

The real-life Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of World War II have long provided fodder for film. Judgment at Nuremberg is ...