The fancy model trains produced by renowned toymaking company Maerklin were a hit with GIs in the aftermath of World War II when U.S. forces set up shop around the German town of Goppingen. Nowadays, ...

At the start of the 1930s, the German railway was the most successful in the world, but the rise of Nazism and its support for the expansion of automobile power begins to curb this rise. In 1944, the ...

A war film based on an incredible true story is on TV later today, and it has a staggering 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. In 1964, John Frankenheimer's American-French film, The Train, made its debut ...

What comparisons between Anne Frank's fate and the current campaign of mass deportations illuminate—and obscure.

A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany during the last few weeks of the war will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon — and will be returning to Germany for the first time since ...