As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Janet Flanner, a struggling novelist with an unconventional lifestyle, was one of countless Americans living in 1920s Paris, ...

They flew biplanes made of canvas and wood, at night, with no parachutes — and struck terror into the German army. The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the “Night Witches,” carried out over ...

IN THE pandemic Yorkshire born writer Bryn Evans read again the mysterious letter, which his wife Jean had found after her father’s passing ...

Some women adopted non-Jewish identities to support the resistance. For most, though, it was simply a strategy for survival – ...

Virginia Wright-Peterson, a researcher and author, joined The Lift to discuss women’s roles during World War II ahead of a talk on Thursday at the Bong Veterans Center. Women in the Northland and ...

About a year ago, researcher Samantha Dorm was backgrounding the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-Black, all-female unit in World War II. As often happens in historical digging, her ...

Follow the rise of Egon Meyer, a 22-year-old German pilot who would become one of WWII’s deadliest aces. From his first kills over France to his unmatched skill against the RAF’s legendary Spitfires, ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

JAMESTOWN, N.C. (WGHP) — It’s hard today to understand the desperation that existed in so much of the world at the end of World War II. Few people felt it like a young German woman who had gotten ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...