Baron Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, a witness to Adolf Hitler's final days who described the last throes of a despairing Nazi leadership trapped in a Berlin bunker, has died, his publisher said Monday. He was 93.Von Loringhoven died in February of natural causes in his...

They spent their childhoods in the rich, layered Jewish life of prewar Poland, then survived Hitler's mission to wipe out European Jewry in the ghettos and gas chambers of occupied Europe.Now, men such as Tad Taube, Sigmund Rolat and Severyn Ashkenazy, after making fortunes in...

In World War II, Germany, under Adolf Hitler's command, conducted extensive bombing runs, called the blitzkrieg, over England. The goal was to disrupt industrial production and to prepare for an invasion. The bombing took a heavy tool on the British populace, and the government tried to boost morale by covering up several of the most-negative effects of the bombing and by playing up the heroism of British soldiers.

A concise summary of the overall implementation of the German-warfare tactic in the Second World War- Blitzkrieg.