The painting shows a girl in a bonnet and her younger brother staring across the Normandy coast toward an unknown horizon.

According to Nazi ideology, an ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed with athletic features. The term is still tied to Nazi ...

Peter Sichel was trusted with some of the CIA’s toughest assignments. From recruiting former Nazi’s to bring down Adolf ...

Tucked into a side passage of the Old Castle in Stuttgart is a small exhibition that provides an enlightening look at Claus ...

As a film critic of 20 years and a film lover of at least 20 more, I don’t even want to guess how many of the damn things ...

According to a new British documentary, analysis of Hitler's DNA proves a rare sexual disorder and high risk of mental illness. But linking his behavior to genetics is problematic.Eighty years after ...

In April 1961, one of the most important trials of the 20th century began. It is 65 years since the former Nazi administrator ...

The overlooked Netflix war thriller Operation Mincemeat, starring Matthew Macfadyen and Colin Firth, is a fascinating look at a mission during WWII.

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The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians. We are lucky to have a long (and still-growing) library of ...