Acting on tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.

Lithuania wants to erase its ugly history of Nazi collaboration—by accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes. By Daniel Brook.

The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sinks within minutes in shark-infested waters. Only 317 of the 1,196 men on board survived.

Seventy years later, [U.S.S. Indianapolis] veterans of an epic naval disaster gather to share stories of suffering, reconciliation, and healing. By Glenn Hodges.

Colour footage.

Jan Bras endured years of forced labour as a Japanese POW before witnessing the aftermath of the atom bomb. Now 92, he tells Elizabeth Day about the horror and brutality he endured – and how he lives with it today

Another map series featuring Germany, this time by artist 1Blomma. This one features a Germany that, against all odds, was successful in World War II and won the war. Do note, however, that neither I nor the author support National Socialism or any of its causes and absolutely abhor the Nazi regime of the Second World War; these maps are purely for conceptualization of the idea, not a wish for such a thing to have happened.

The man who led the Manhattan Project, Major General Leslie Groves, was an ‘abrasive and sarcastic S.O.B’. But, writes Seamus Sweeney, he also produced what may be one of the best guides to project management ever written…

By photographer Brandi Mueller

Richard J. Evans and the History of Nazism

The telegram arrived at the führerbunker on April 23, 1945, sending Adolf Hitler into a rage. A week later, the Nazi dictator was dead.

At 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project comes to an explosive end as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

He was a general’s general, tough, unrelenting, a man who embraced the role history thrust on him. He was also haughty and controversial, traits that would lead to his eventual downfall. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers...

This image is framed above my desk. It reminds me of the following: A: Things could always be worse B: No matter how scary something is, sometimes forward is your only option C: The hearts of men, when motivated are capable of heroic proportions

Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from the Holocaust, has died at the age of 106, British media reported.

The power of the “Holocaust” as a concept has all but obliterated other aspects of the crimes of the Nazis and the sufferings of their victims and driven the history of the concentration camps from cultural memory. By Richard J. Evans.

This leads to the Berlin Airlift to provision the city's inhabitants.

Soviet, Spanish archives detail how the Duke wanted to replace the British cabinet with a pro-Nazi government.

Along with almost getting hit by a car, he made important contributions to the atomic bomb's design.

The story of the Women's Air Service Pilots (WASP) in the United States is relatively well known. Much less well known however is the story of the Night Witches, an incredible group of Soviet women who flew bombing missions during World War II.