The German government has approved a new system to make it easier to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners.View on ...

The German government on Wednesday signed off on a reform plan for the process of returning art looted by the Nazis, despite criticism from victims' families and lawyers.

From cookbooks to cricket, biographies to Sunday Times bestsellers, Country Life contributors name some of their favourite ...

The yacht used by Adolf Hitler ended up in Hartlepool after being seized at the end of the war. Columns and a stone tablet showing the Ten Commandments are discovered at a weir in the River Isar. A ...

For example, in the 1990s a U.S. localizer might have labeled a bowl of ramen as “chicken soup” and a plate of mochi as “cake ...

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In defiance of the demands of historians, Holocaust survivors and public opinion, Canada’s Liberal government is suppressing ...

What is happening?  It feels like we are living in a Salvador Dali painting characterized by his surrealist dream-like imagery and unexpected juxtapositions. However, this is not a dream but a ...

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe married baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The two would divorce less than a year later. In 1963, George ...

The Patio de la Infanta in Zaragoza, Spain, was built by the banker of Carlos I as a sign of love for his wife. After several ...

The Ghost Army employed such clever tactics and strategies that it kept the enemy confused throughout the war. The German army and other intelligence units never discovered that the Ghost Army's ...

The Village Voice reviews three timely books that look at the rise of white nationalism and right-wing violence in the U.S.