The Director’ By Daniel Kehlmann Summit Books, 2025. Garbo to Goebbels, Daniel Kehlmann’s historical novel “The Director” is the story of Austrian film director G.W. Pa ...

The day after the German Reichstag was severely damaged by fire, in 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party, which had received only one-third of the popular vote a few months before, rammed through a decree ...

After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

What is House of History? House of History is my little soapbox project. Politics, history, and cultural developments have ...

As time marches on, the number of Holocaust survivors left diminishes. These are the stories two survivors, who have since passed away, shared in the documentary “The Last Survivors.” ...

To many Germans, Americans were saviors after World War II, and they feel especially hurt over President Donald Trump’s ...

For 70 years, Germany embodied postwar recovery – prosperous, stable and admired. Now, as exports falter, populism grows and ...

College of Charleston Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived ...

I have often wondered what it felt like for my ninth great-grandfather, Johannes (Hans) Christoffel Emich, to stand on the deck of a ship after weeks at sea and look toward land he had never seen.