Cars don't deserve a bad rap just because their owners were shitty, but as humans we can't help but assign significance to objects via their owners. Take this very brief ad for a 1940 Mercedes-Benz ...

The United States entered World War II as a result of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other American military bases on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The next day, President ...

Some American commentators began to wonder what America would do to prepare for war. Others, remembering the horrors of the "war to end all wars" they had fought in Europe a little over two decades ...

Hitler’s decision to spare the BEF at Dunkirk and allow their evacuation to Britain from May 26 to June 4, 1940, was meant to underscore the fact that he wanted peace with Britain. Ironically, it was ...

Germany’s limited sources of raw materials have stimulated her chemical industry again and again to new inventions and technical achievements. Beyond the purpose of safeguarding economic independence, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Acknowledging these factors isn’t to diminish the heroism of the RAF pilots who defended the United Kingdom. Fighter Command’s successful defense spared the UK more ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 7, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 7, 1940, Nazi Germany began an intense ...

In 1940, Germany’s Fallschirmjäger, or paratroopers, redefined modern warfare by turning Benjamin Franklin’s 18th-century fantasy of “men descending from the clouds” into a deadly reality. Inspired by ...

A published author, the mother to an NBA team president, one of the first female advertising executives and a Nazi Germany refugee, Barbara Feigin's life is characterized by what she sees as the ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter @JosephVMicallef. The United States entered World War II as a result of the ...