At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army. They were stuck in a pocket of around 48 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers ...

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

In Instagram posts, Nazi perpetrators are glorified, while their war crimes and role in the Holocaust are omitted. Victims' organizations call it an "attack on the dignity of the survivors." ...

Juergen Habermas, best-known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more ...

The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

Gesa Shira Ederberg was not yet a rabbi when she was tapped to lead a seder, to teach Hebrew, and to organize an egalitarian ...

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of ...

A teenager in Nazi Germany, Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth though avoided being drafted into the Wehrmacht when armistice was called. Studying in Germany and Switzerland after the war, he ...

Before becoming a global luxury fashion label, Hugo Boss had close ties to Nazi Germany. Historical records show the company ...

Rare images showing the final moments of 200 Greek prisoners executed by the Nazis at a firing range in Athens have been acquired by Greece. The images are part of a collection purchased from ...