While the war was officially over, Berlin in the summer of 1946 was in chaos. The city was the cradle of East and West superpowers; no laws existed, and everyone was either a criminal or a survivor.

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...

The preparation of the Russian presidential administration for the "post-war" election campaign to the State Duma, which will be held in September 2026, could be considered another sign of the ...

Even in supposedly post-nazi Berlin, the eponymous hero of The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson (Abacus, £7.99) has a secret that could still get him jailed, or worse. It’s 1946 and, amid the ...

Change begins in darkness, apparently. And the places where New York cop Max McLaughlin pursues his investigations could hardly be darker. In the ZDF series “The Defeated”, Swedish showrunner Måns ...

Communist governments had taken over Eastern European countries after World War One. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...

[AP Photo/Kay Nietfeld] Sunday’s federal elections mark a decisive turning point in German and European post-war history. For the first time since the fall of the Third Reich 80 years ago ...

After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...