Juergen Habermas, best-known for his theory of political consensus-building, shaped the discourse of post-war Germany more ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

By the time he died last week at the age of 96, Jürgen Habermas had been teaching the Germans how not to be beastly for some 70 years. Yet he owed his life to a Nazi – his own father.

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

A teenager in Nazi Germany, Habermas was a member of the Hitler Youth though avoided being drafted into the Wehrmacht when armistice was called. Studying in Germany and Switzerland after the war, he ...

In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best ...

According to a statement released by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the original home of a mosaic taken to Germany by a Wehrmacht captain who worked as a military supply chain officer during ...

Chile has sworn in its most right-wing president in decades — and his rise, and ideology, are rooted in a small town beneath the Andes.

Russia’s method of grouping its soldiers into “battalion tactical groups” assumed that those soldiers would be better-trained than a potential adversary—an assumption that is clearly no longer the ...

William L. Shirer, who witnessed a 1934 Nazi rally in Nuremberg, would link the criminality of individuals to communal frenzy. Corbis Nineteen sixty: Only 15 years had passed since the end of World ...