The trouble with a really bad idea is that no matter how awful it is to start with, it will probably be — well, improved upon is hardly right, but let’s say dialed up or intensified. So although the ...

The babies that survived Ravensbruck were for the most part born just before its liberation by the Red Army during the night of April 29 to 30. The Nazis burned their records, but a register kept by a ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. The question of how we should commemorate the concentration camps is a live one. On a ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Roger Moorhouse is a historian of modern Germany and author of “The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.” Ravensbrück By Sarah Helm Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 743 pp. $37.50 When the ...

Her voice quivering at times and crackling with anger at others, a San Francisco woman deported to her native Germany for serving as a concentration camp guard during World War II said Wednesday that ...

“We arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944, were led to a steam bath, and our hair was cut off. We got numbers and a yellow star — for Jewish. My number was 72316,” one ...

Alix Christie's Feb. 26 Magazine article, "Guarding the Truth," was moving for me: Betrayed from their hiding place in what is now Slovakia, my late mother and her mother were transported to ...

Beta Cinema has secured international sales rights for historical drama Each of Us, which follows four inmates at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp during the final days of World War Two. The ...