This is the chilling story of how methamphetamines—marketed as harmless 'pep pills'—became the secret weapon behind the Blitzkrieg.

Five months after D-Day, the 84th Infantry Division arrived on the shores of Omaha Beach in occupied France. It was mid-November 1944, and the Third Reich was about to launch a last strike in a ...

The second World War was devastating, but also plenty of technical advancements were made possible by the combatants’ desire to win. Despite being defeated in the … ...

As zero hour approached in the battle of Europe, both sides were agog last week over secret weapons:¶ The Nazis had the heavily secret jet-propelled planes of Britain and the U.S. to worry ...

The German war industry had plenty of plans ranging from giant construction to secret weapons that seem to be out of the pages of a pulp science fiction magazine.

The Nazi scientists acknowledged that the project was beyond their conceivable reach for the sake of the war—speculating that it might be possible in 50 to 100 years.

Hitler's Sunken Secret homepage How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have built a weapon like the atomic bombs ...

Churchill's daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman has been described as "the greatest courtesan of her era". Was she a smart power player – or "shameless" and "repellent"?

The photo album, now donated to Yad Vashem, offers rare visual evidence of the direct complicity of uniformed Nazi officers in the antisemitic pogroms.

During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition. At ...