More than 70 years later, the prosecution of a 94-year-old former SS guard renews questions about how to assign blame for the Holocaust On a cold, gray morning in February, Irene Weiss was waiting ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer dared to resist Adolf Hitler's regime — and paid for it with his life. The theologian's legacy inspires ...

The U.S. hoped that if German POWs were treated humanely, Germany would reciprocate in its treatment of American prisoners.

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...