The Potsdam Conference shaped the diplomacy of the end of World War II. And on this day in history, July 17, 1945, following Nazi Germany's surrender in the war, President Harry S. Truman, British ...

One good turn, the saying goes, deserves another. The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole ...

The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not ...

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

BERLIN — It's an iconic image of World War II: Berlin has fallen and Soviet soldiers are hoisting the red flag over the Reichstag. What most people don't realize, however, is that the photograph isn't ...