Hastings's most recent book is Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945, from which the following essay is excerpted. A cultural collision took place in Germany in 1945, between societies whose ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Ar 234 was manufactured by Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH, a German company founded in 1925 as Arado Handelsgesellschaft and dedicated to airplanes and ...

In the aftermath, American soldiers gunned down dozens of unarmed German prisoners of war in a field—a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. “I remember we had been given orders ...

Polish officials on Friday paid tribute to insurgents who fought a victorious uprising against their region's German rulers shortly after the ... the end of World War II." ...

The most significant of their crimes was the ethnic cleansing and expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 war ...

Despite the war, Ukraine is one of the world's top wheat producers. Rebels led by Sharaa's group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive on November 27 that saw them take a number of key ...

“And it is not only in Magdeburg that many are asking themselves: Where can we find the strength to carry on after ... the world. Because we are industrious.” “What’s next for Germany?