He was a legendary tank commander in WWII who returned to the scene of a battle 68 years later to meet a former enemy and answer one question about a woman he encountered in a battle: Did she live?

Dion Fortune, Psychic Warfare and the Magical Battle of Britain. By David Metcalfe.

92-year-old Wren tells us about life cracking German codes

Oversteegen and two other young women used their unassuming charms to ensnare Nazi collaborators

Jonas Noreika has been honored as a martyr since his execution by the Soviet secret police in 1947. But he now stands accused by his own granddaughter of helping the Nazis kill Jews.

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Shigeaki Mori was 8 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He survived and committed himself to uncovering the names of all those who died — including 12 American POWs.

A deathbed promise led to me discovering his complicity in the Holocaust — and what it means beyond my family

Children regarded as "racially pure" and abducted by the SS are not entitled to compensation, a German court has ruled. Up to 200,000 children were kidnapped and forcibly Germanized during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

His obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth “Shoah,” a film recognized as both an important historical record and an original work of art.

The daring exploits and beguiling charm of the 20th century’s greatest travel writer. By Dominic Green.

Officials believed the stews and soups had the power to unite Germany.

Before two deadly nuclear mishaps, scientists used to risk “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.”

Seventy-five years ago, in Operation Gunnerside, a stealthy group of commandos took out a crucial Nazi chemical plant

Britain re-created the World War I Ministry of Information for the duration of World War II to generate propaganda to influence the population towards support for the war effort.

Controversy over the comfort women is partly rooted in a Manichean worldview dividing people into innocents and oppressors. By Joseph Yi.

Up to 200,000 Polish children were kidnapped from orphanages or snatched from their parents and then forcibly 'Germanized' during World War II. DW and Interia.pl are helping victims reconstruct the past.

There’s a surprising link between railings and the capital’s wartime past

Four siblings wrote hundreds of letters to each other during World War II. The story they tell of service, sacrifice and trauma was hidden away in an abandoned storage unit — until now.

Japan deployed thousands of kamikaze pilots in WW2, but what does their legacy mean for youth now? By Mariko Oi.