CAMBRIDGE — In the final month of World War II, a 19-year-old German soldier, Gerhard Altenbourg, killed a Soviet soldier with a bayonet. It wrecked him. His unsparing drawing “Ecce Homo Dying Warrior ...
During World War II in Germany, an American soldier stole a baroque landscape painting created by 18th-century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer. The family of the solider contacted Art ...
Diethild Heubel pulls a precious document from a binder: a yellowed decades-old letter, neatly handwritten by her father, a German soldier taken prisoner at the end of World War II. "This is his last ...
Every country that participated in the World War II air war had more than a few types of airplanes, but their design schemes could be distinguished throughout the conflict. The Americans liked to ...
Prisoners of war during World War II have proved to be a rich source for producers of popular culture, inspiring novels, memoirs, movies and even a situation comedy. (Remember “Hogan’s Heroes”?) ...
Long-lost drawings from World War II show some of Germany’s crafty plans to defeat the Allied Forces, including an exploding chocolate bar, a bomb buried in an army mess tin beneath the classic ...
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