Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” when Valhalla goes up in flames. In this ...

There's nothing like a look back at Germany in the 1930s to help us appreciate that things are not as bad as they could be In February 1933, just a few weeks after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of ...