At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

The vehicles we know today as tanks emerged on a grand scale at the beginning of the 20th century, right before the First World War. In 1900, Britain commissioned steam-engine manufacturer John Fowler ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

Hoyer has several important advantages that Steinbeck and Capa lacked. East Germany’s fearsome internal security apparatus is long gone, which means her surviving subjects are free to speak openly ...

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Britain’s fabled World War II general, purportedly remarked that you haven’t truly experienced war until you have fought the Germans. Whether or not he used those ...

The Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German Jewish History and Culture is a landmark academic institution in German Jewish history. With multiple branches around the world, it is one of the ...