German leader forced to correct president that end of Second World War was part of his country’s “liberation” from Nazism ...

In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.

More than a dozen abandoned boats were airlifted by a helicopter off an uninhabited island in Washington state's Puget Sound ...

The life of Hitler’s favourite filmmaker offers a blueprint for understanding the rise of fascist aesthetics today ...

To make D-Day a success, the Allies thought they might have to break through formidable German defences. One unconventional ...

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...

Academy Award-winning director Marcel Ophuls has died. He was 97. The German filmmaker, son of acclaimed director Max Ophuls, ...