German business Paul Leffmann sold Picasso's "The Actor" in 1938 to escape Nazi Germany with his wife. His great-grand-niece has lost a lawsuit aimed at returning the piece to the family estate.

Archaeologists claim to have proved that Julius Caesar set foot on what is now Dutch soil, destroying two Germanic tribes in a battle that left about 150,000 people dead. The tribes were massacred in the fighting with the Roman emperor in 55BC, on a battle site now in Kessel, in the southern province of Brabant. Skeletons, spearheads, swords and a helmet have been unearthed at the site over the past three decades. But now carbon dating as well as other historical and geochemical...

Fifth Avenue in Manhattan stretches from Washington Square Park all the way to 143rd Street in Harlem, dividing the island's streets between east and west. Originally a high-class residential street, Fifth Avenue first began to commercialize with the 1893 opening of the Astoria Hotel. In 1906, the B. Altman and Company department store opened on 34th and Fifth, and the street transitioned to a hub of commerce.

Anna Katharina Schaffner reviews Gavriel D. Rosenfeld’s “Hi Hitler! How the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture.”