Former professor Howard Russell was secretary general of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which tried 185 alleged war criminals after World War II.

In the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Sicily, American troops executed dozens of unarmed Italian and German prisoners. The Biscari Massacre remains one of the most controversial war crimes ...

A luxury ocean liner burned and capsized in New York Harbor on Feb. 9, 1942. The SS Normandie, being converted into a troopship, caught fire during welding work and took 6,000 tons of water from ...

Viral claims online have misrepresented Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's remark that Warsaw would pay for the Polish victims of WWII, and not Germany, amidst an ongoing reparations debate with ...

During World War II, an Allied tribunal convicted German submariners of murdering shipwrecked survivors. In doing so, it set two clear precedents that the Trump administration seems to have overlooked ...