When World War II ended millions of German soldiers were left with no home no country and no future waiting for them. In prisoner of war camps across Europe some were given a stark choice join the ...
The collapse of Nazi Germany did not bring an immediate end to many of the regime’s most feared security figures. While some members of the Gestapo and SS faced trial at Nuremberg, others escaped, ...
In East Berlin in 1956, an 18-year-old upstart named Hans-Georg Bruno Kern found an art school requirement utterly disagreeable. While his classmates put in time working at an industrial site—a ...