Poland on April 13 commemorates the victims of the Katyń massacre, the 22,000 Polish officers and state officials killed by the Soviet NKVD in 1940 and buried in mass graves including at Katyń.

In July 1940, just days after the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov warned the ...

Back in the early days of martial law, when I went underground, among the books I read in our safehouse in Makati was William Shirer’s monumental The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a comprehensive ...

Traditionally, alliances were forged as highly contingent, time-bound partnerships, but after World War II, the United States went about establishing permanent ones, including NATO and bilateral ...

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Institutions are grappling with the human remains in their collections that were used to justify debunked theories about race ...

Recently turning 107, "Bazooka" Joe Pietroforte is an inspiration, still hitting the dance floor every week and living life ...

He was obsessed with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery, part of his grandiose architectural ambitions for the nation’s capital.

The so-called 'Miller-Beaton scrapbook' (pictured) contains several previously unpublished images by the celebrated ...

From 1937 until the 1950s, Moss Hart, the toast of New York's theatrical world, spent his summers on a rural property in ...