NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.

Learn how Germany's social market economy and fiscal strategies led to a post-WWII economic revival, making it a global powerhouse.

A Virginia man traveled to Germany to retrace his father's harrowing WWII experience as a B-24 gunner, POW and Death March survivor.

To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's ...

Thousands of residents in the German city of Nuremberg were ordered to leave their homes on Friday after construction workers unearthed a large World War II–era bomb. Officials moved quickly to secure ...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Police say bomb disposal experts have successfully defused a huge World War II-era bomb in the German financial capital Frankfurt that forced the evacuation of more than 60,000 ...

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to concentration camps when they were newly pregnant.

The remains of 39 Soviet soldiers were laid to rest at a war cemetery in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Friday. They were recovered from various locations in Brandenburg over the past few ...

Roddie Edmonds help save the lives of about 300 Jewish-Americans while being held as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

In November 1943, a lost American P-47 Thunderbolt landed on a German airfield by mistake. Luftwaffe engineers seized the ...

In 1994, a suburban wife, mother and journalist named Christine Kuehn received a mysterious letter in the mail from a filmmaker. Its message? A suggestion that her grandparents were Nazi spies who ...