Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933. Hitler believed that pure-blooded Germans were descendants of an ancient Aryan race. This “master race,” according to Hitler, was destined to rule over ...

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At the beginning of “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," the great Czech author Milan Kundera tells the story of a cold, snowy day in Czechoslovakia in 1948 at the height of Communist rule. A man ...

Will today’s Cold War confrontation end auspiciously, the way the first one did, or will it slide through strategic miscalculations on both sides into a third world war? Adolph Hitler’s misjudgments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 80 years ago, high above the jagged peaks of the Himalayas, American and Chinese pilots braved the perilous "Hump" air ...