This June will be the 65th anniversary of D-Day. World War II veterans who participated in the historic D-Day landings are preparing to go to the France to participate in ... Read More

In May 1945, an unidentified high-ranking Nazi wrote a four-page document of his perceptions of Adolf Hitler. This soldier had spent time with Hitler during his last days in the ... Read More

From 1975 to 1979, the Communist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia was responsible for the slaughter of approximately 1.7 million people (nearly one-fifth of the country's entire population). Thirty years ... Read More

Produced by Thomas Edison but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery was the first narrative movie, one that told a story. Learn ... Read More

Oh how I swoon for Hugh Jackman! Luckily for me, Hugh will host this year's Academy Awards ceremony. Each individual Academy Awards ceremony offers something a little different, sometimes even ... Read More

Since Gandhi believed in asceticism, he had very few personal possessions. That is why an auction planned for March 4-5, 2009 of some of Gandhi's personal items is both very ... Read More

During the night of February 5-6, 1989, 20-year-old Chris Gueffroy and a friend planned to climb the Berlin Wall. Gueffroy was soon to enter military service and was desperate to ... Read More

For decades, France blamed only those in the Vichy government for sending its Jewish citizens to Nazi camps during World War II. In February 2009, France's highest judicial court, the ... Read More

On the morning after the 1948 presidential election, the Chicago Daily Tribune's headline read "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." That's what the Republicans, the polls, the newspapers, the political writers, and even ... Read More

On the morning of St. Valentine's Day in 1929, seven men were gunned down in cold blood in a garage in Chicago. The massacre, orchestrated by Al Capone, shocked the ... Read More

While construction workers were digging for a foundation of a luxury hotel in Malbork, Poland, they discovered a WWII-era mass grave. Further excavation has revealed the bodies of 1,800 men, ... Read More

While serving his third, non-consecutive term as President of Argentina, Juan Peron died on July 1, 1974 at age 78. His rule had been controversial, with many adoring him and ... Read More

As the decades pass, the grass grows high and the stones have begun to crumble at Auschwitz. With the Nazi death and concentration camp falling into disrepair, the future of ... Read More

Nazi Dr. Aribert Heim earned his nickname of "Dr. Death" while conducting experiments on prisoners at the Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust. During these experiments, he was known to ... Read More

History can sometimes be found in the strangest of places. When architect Mark Aretz was recently refurbishing an apartment complex in Leipzig, Germany, he stumbled upon an apartment that had ... Read More

The National World War II Museum in New Orleans is going to nearly double in size when its expansion opens in November of this year. The expansion includes the addition ... Read More