The Roaring Twenties refers to the 1920s, a decade of cultural and social vitality, particularly in France. The term reflects ...

Thousands of women - schoolteachers, secretaries, nurses and camp guards - played a more or less active role in the Holocaust ...

Nazis With its onion-domed steeple and octagonal towers, Hartheim Castle is a remarkable example of Renaissance architecture ...

Thanks to the 1902 treaty with England, Tokyo had a free hand to attack in Asia, where it was already becoming the alter ego ...

Derived from the poppy plant, the psychotropic narcotic has fascinated people for 5,000 years. For better and for worse.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which ...

On September 30th, 1938, the Munich Agreement was ratified. They didn’t stop World War II from starting, but they had major repercussions for Czechoslovakia. The Munich Agreement was signed by Germany ...