Brave women helped downed Allied flyers escape the Germans. But, more than that, they showed Hitler’s white nationalists they would not surrender, would not submit. By Christopher Dickey.

With better leadership, the iconic fighter plane might’ve been unnecessary. By James Perry Stevenson and Pierre Sprey.

The German government has announced an investigation into the influence of the Nazis on the country’s post-war government. A four-year inquiry will follow 20 other investigations made over the past 70 years to determine how far networks attached to Hitler’s regime reached into the new administration after the fall of the Third Reich. By Caroline Mortimer.

Dina Gold researched her family’s Berlin past – and uncovered a dark secret dating from the Nazi era. By Michael Freedland.

The high-stakes gamble and false assumptions that detonated Pearl Harbor 75 years ago. By Steve Twomey.

“She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” - Gestapo transmission regarding OSS agent Virginia Hall.

You can help historians learn how newspapers in the U.S. documented the persecution of European Jews. By Erin Blakemore (Apr. 11, 2016)

Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya became one of the Soviet Army’s most notorious tank drivers after her husband was killed by Nazis. By Taylor Prewitt.

At the height of World War II, the U.S. intelligence service recruited world-famous Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung as ‘Agent 488’ to work against the Nazis. By Christopher Dickey.

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Elizabeth Letts, the bestselling author of ‘The Eighty Dollar Champion’ describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.

These heroes helped decide the outcome of the war. By Erin Kelly.

World War II didn’t end for one Marine veteran until Wednesday. That’s when 91-year-old Indianapolis resident Junior Howell finally received his Purple Heart medal – 72 years to the day after he was wounded fighting the Japanese on Peleliu island, The Indianapolis Star Press reported. “It’s the end of World War II for me,” Howell told reporters. “…Everything turned out fine. I had a good life.” More than 100 spectators turned out to watch the honor bestowed on Howell. Some were strangers who made the trek merely to pay their respects.

After Pearl Harbor, a fearful Library of Congress secretly stashed the crown jewels of U.S. history for safekeeping. This was the rescue plan.

On 17 September 1939, early in the morning, the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Poland was already in the state of war with Nazi Germany that had started on 1 September 1939.

The inscription of art work on military planes dates to World War I, when paintings were usually extravagant company or unit insignia. However, regulations were put in place after the war to stymie the practice. As the United States entered World War II, nose art regulations were relaxed, or in many cases totally ignored. WWII would become the golden age of aircraft artistry.

Greta Zimmer Friedman, who was kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, died Thursday.

NOAA and its research partners are surveying, for the first time since they sank more than 70 years ago, the remains of two ships that were involved in a convoy battle off North Carolina during World War II. The “Battle of the Atlantic: Archaeology of an Underwater WWII Battlefield” expedition is part of an ongoing research project to document and highlight a little-known, but important, chapter in the nation’s maritime history.

‘It was rare for us to see him in the mornings,” says Brunhilde Pomsel, her eyes closed and chin in her hand as she recalls her former boss. “He’d walk up the steps from his little palace near the Brandenburg Gate, on to which his huge propaganda ministry was attached. He’d trip up the steps like a little duke, through his library into his beautiful office on Unter den Linden.” She smiles at the image, noting how elegant the furniture was, the carefree atmosphere where she sat in an ante-chamber off...

Poet. Born on the 22nd of January 1921 in Warsaw, died on the 4th of August 1944 in the Warsaw Uprising