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Indian businessman quietly rescued five Jewish families from Nazi-occupied Austria using forged job offers, compassion, and ...

During World War II, Nazi Germany constructed massive Flak Towers (Flak Türme) in cities like Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna as part of their anti-aircraft defense against Allied bombers. These imposing ...

Born 200 years ago, we explore the hypnotic and seductive qualities of Johann Strauss II’s music, and what allows the Blue Danube to so capture the never-ending dance of humankind.

Austria is famously neutral — a stance it declared in 1955 after World War II — and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war for maintaining ties with ...

Born just after the end of World War II, Russell “Russ” Griffith’s life was shaped by service. A Parkersburg native and Parkersburg High School graduate of 1963, Griffith joined the U.S. Army at just ...

The Ottoman Empire in the year of the Battle of Kahlenberg, under Mehmed IV (in light green, the vassal states). Credit: Chamboz / Wikimedia Commons The latter was one more episode in what is known as ...

Delve into the riveting world of black-and-white cinema with these timeless classics that continue to captivate audiences ...

It took time to reassemble the orchestra in 2022. The following January, amid rolling blackouts and power cuts, they played their traditional Viennese New Year’s concert in the dark to a packed house, ...

Few questions of global governance today are as consequential as the following. Is the post-World War II order dead and a new ...

On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, granting citizenship and “equal protection under the ...