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.

Pilot Officer Billy Fiske was the first US citizen to travel to the United Kingdom at the onset of World War II to join the Royal Air Force, and was one of seven American pilots to take part in the Battle of Britain.

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

The final installment of the story of the Hesse Heist covers the trials of Nash, Durant, and Watson.

As an adult, Janine Simone Hopkins was encouraged by her family to record her experiences and reflections of her life in Paris during the German occupation. 

Attached to Canadian and British forces, the first Americans to see ground combat in Europe witnessed disaster at Dieppe.

Eduardo Peniche came to the United States to obtain an education and became a decorated war veteran and proud American in the process.

Three groups were at the heart of post-war German fears of revenge: Jewish Holocaust survivors, Eastern European Displaced Persons, and American occupation officials.

How Soviet occupation policy in Austria took shape warrants more attention.

To ensure that “justice” was done at Nuremberg, American occupation officials set German war criminals free decades ahead of schedule.