By the late 1960s, West Germany and Israel were moving in almost opposite diplomatic directions in a political environment dominated by the Cold War...

Fritzsche offers an extraordinary examination of how, in just a few months, Germans got used to living around, among, and, mostly, in unity with, Nazis...

Almost unknown in the West, this siege of Przemysl was one of the great turning points of the First World War...

Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets...

Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Germany’s winter campaign of 1941–1942 is commonly seen as the Wehrmacht's first defeat. Stahel argues that it was in fact their first strategic success in the east.

Seegel offers an insightful contribution to the history of map making which is written through and by individual geographers/cartographers/map men...

The former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt grew up as a devout Anglophile, yet he clashed heavily and repeatedly with his British counterparts Wilson, Callaghan, and Thatcher during his time in office between 1974 and 1982..

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Hanebrink shows how Fascists, Conservatives and Nazis imagined Jewish Bolsheviks as enemies who crossed borders to subvert order from within and bring destructive ideas from abroad...

How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Vogel tells the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage operations of the Cold War—and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it...

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis launched a pogrom against German Jews...Kristallnacht.

Learning, innovation and adaptation are not concepts that we necessarily associate with the British Army of the First World War. Yet the need to learn from mistakes, to exploit new opportunities and to adapt to complex and novel situations are always necessary...

For some time, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been treated with a certain level of skepticism because of his engagement with the Nazi party...

While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...

How does the world of book reviews work?

The book argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia bore some similarities to that in other places, but also differed in ways that lead to new questions and approaches...

How did the Iron Curtain shape the Federal Republic of Germany?

Gemeiner-Bihler compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspapers, organizational documents, and oral histories...

Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted...