Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

The signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan in 1936 was one of the truly momentous and horrifying conjunctures of the twentieth century.

How Japan was imagined in Germany and in Hitler’s racial worldview needs to be defined precisely.

Thanks to a manuscript Beck wrote while hiding out in France in 1944, we know much of the story of this American fighter pilot.

What transpired in Spain in 1936-37 was not only a civil war but a social revolution.

In 1933-34 the gains made by gay men in Germany and the Soviet Union were abruptly reversed.

At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.

Tensions arose almost immediately in Buchenwald between liberators and liberated.

The importance of World War II to Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and thought is often overlooked.

The importance of World War II to Jean-Paul Sartre’s life and thought is often overlooked.