When Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, Romania was not fighting for Hitler’s ideology—but for its own survival. After losing vast territories in 1940, General Ion Antonescu aligned the country ...

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for ...

In May 1941, Nazi Germany launched its first major airborne invasion, targeting the strategic island of Crete. As thousands ...

By far the **best American fighter** in operational service in 1939, and by far the **shiniest aircraft** on this list, the * ...

Fragments removed from the Bayeux Tapestry in 1941 by a Nazi scientist have been returned, according to the French museum that houses the priceless 900-year-old artefact.

Two fragments of the 11th-Century fabric were stolen from Bayeux during the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.

On0, World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed COVID-19 -- a ...

In 1941, Jacob Gens was given an unthinkable task: deciding which Jewish people would be turned over to the Germans. Gens, ...

The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order. This is an edited transcript of “The ...

RIGA - Germany and Latvia agree that Russia is a threat to Euro-Atlantic security and must be contained in every possible way, said Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze (New Unity), who welcomed ...