In June 2004, while spending a weekend in Munich away from dissertation research at the Austrian National Library, I boarded a train in the city’s Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) for a short trip.

On April 21, 1946, two political parties united, creating a single, dominant party in what became East Germany.

The Museum highlights educational resources for teachers and students that can be used to explore the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Born of desperation, the British tank attack at Arras on May 21, 1940 was a tactical failure with major strategic implications—and it may have helped to save the British army.

Prior to 1933, Bavarian authorities devised an entire system for policing and persecuting Roma.