Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

Life in Berlin in 1945 before, during and after the battle of Berlin seen through the eyes of those who were there at the time from common Berliners to Allied troops.

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“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...

Eager soldiers pull copies of the Stars and Stripes newspaper from the press of the London Times at 9 p.m. on May 7, 1945, when an extra edition was put out to announce the news of Germany's surrender ...

A photograph taken in 1926 depicting paintings by Peter Paul Rubens that likely burned in a fire in 1945 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv In 1925, following the destruction of artworks and ...