In 1943 Ian Buruma’s father, a university student, found himself in an already battered Berlin among thousands of forced ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have ...

Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career ...

Ian Buruma’s account of his father’s years in a German factory accounts department is moving but limited in scope ...

Enemy at the Gates – first released 25 years ago this week – is based on a legendary duel amid the rubble and wreckage of the ...

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.

Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers ...

Description: During late 1942 and early 1943, the fortunes began to turn for Nazi Germany, and there seemed little they could ...

This compelling film examines survival and moral compromise among those caught inside the machinery of the Nazi regime.