The six British sisters are the subject of a new Britbox series. In 1989, Jessica Mitford talked with Terry Gross about her relationship with the Communist Party and her book about the death industry.

NUREMBERG, Germany — On a spring evening in Nuremberg, an orchestra of New York students gathered for a concert celebrating ...

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

Historian Thomas Webber shows how a trove of interviews with fugitive Reich officers reminds us how dangerous human nature ...

Tom Barnett, administrator of Meadows Hospital since July 1, 1966, will move to the State Hospital where he will be assistant ...

As German forces encircled the city and artillery began its relentless assault, Leningrad’s people faced starvation, terror, and fire from the skies. Hitler’s plan was clear—starve the city into ...

As Operation Barbarossa stormed east, Hitler expected full Finnish support to crush Leningrad. But Marshal Mannerheim had ...

The first naval battle of World War II unfolded not in European waters, but in the South Atlantic off the coasts of Argentina ...

Operation Sea Lion was Nazi Germany’s ambitious but ultimately aborted plan to invade and conquer Britain during World War II ...

“A chain of newspapers owned by Sir Keith Murdoch, father of latter-year media magnate Rupert Murdoch, earned a reputation ...

Night after night, the skies over Britain roared with fire and steel. The Blitz wasn’t just an air raid—it was a battle for ...