A photograph taken in 1926 depicting paintings by Peter Paul Rubens that likely burned in a fire in 1945 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv In 1925, following the destruction of artworks and ...
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie will publish online high-resolution images of over 400 paintings destroyed in 1945 fires during World War II, preserved on fragile glass negatives taken in 1925 by photographer ...
An unexploded US aerial bomb from World War II was found in central Berlin during construction work on Friday, forcing the evacuation of surrounding city blocks, police said. The 100-kilogramme ...
March 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1836, Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio, killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days.
“Dictators thrive not on love but on indifference,” said Kevin Peraino in The New York Times. That’s the underlying message of Ian Buruma’s “crisply told and uncomfortably relevant” new history of ...