DAMASCUS — A 73-year-old man opened his apartment door in the heart of the Syrian capital in October 1985 and invited a West German reporter inside for coffee….

Margarete Speer was 41 years old when the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced her husband to 20 years in Spandau Prison. She was 61 when he walked…

Martin Bormann’s youngest surviving son, the boy Adolf Hitler personally named and blessed at his baptism, died in a German care home in 2013 carrying to his grave…

The final doors of Heinrich Himmler’s secret maternity network closed in the spring of 1945, leaving roughly 500 children scattered across a shattered continent with falsified papers, erased…

Berlin was in ruins, the war was lost, and no one argued with Adolf Hitler anymore. But on March 12, 1945, one German general walked into the Reich…

Lautlingen, Germany — In the final, chaotic months of the Second World War, a pregnant woman named Nina von Stauffenberg sat in isolation in a Gestapo cell, her…

BERLIN — In a single afternoon at the height of his power, Adolf Hitler transformed twelve generals into field marshals inside the Croll Opera House, handing each an…

BADEN-BADEN, Germany — The wedding ring arrived on one of the last planes to leave the Stalingrad pocket in January 1943, a small parcel carried out of a…

BONN, West Germany — The man who took command of West Germany’s tank forces in 1967 bore a name that had once been synonymous with the Blitzkrieg itself,…