This absorbing study of the Allied occupation of Germany and Austria from 1945 to 1949 shows that the end of WWII by no means ended the suffering. A vengeful Red Army visited on German women an ordeal ...

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 ...

Some of the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade will probably serve in the Allied army of occupation in Germany, Moshe Shertok, chief of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, told a ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe ...

Terror came on the cold, wet wind with the sound of Russian guns. Panic came on the heels of the milling, stumbling horde of refugees. Berlin, at last, was a battle ...

For ten months the postwar world’s No. 1 problem—could the Allies agree about what to do with Europe—had been dramatized in miniature in the barnlike rooms of London’s Lancaster House. Could the U.S., ...

“The city of Naples smells of charred wood, with ruins everywhere, sometimes completely blocking the streets, bomb craters and abandoned trams,” Norman Lewis, later a famed travel writer but then an ...