World War II

Solving an old maritime mystery, cognitive psychologists used the testimony of German soldiers, long thought to be contrived, to locate the wreck of the HMAS Sydney.

On 22 June 1941 Hermitage staff were summoned to the museum. They began to evacuate the collections, leaving just the frames hanging empty on the walls.

For over half a century survivors of Pearl Harbor have flocked to Honolulu to commemorate the event that drew the United States into World War II.

Gremlins, described as tinkers and tricksters, often took the blame for inexplicable malfunctions in planes. Critics explain gremlin sightings as hallucinations induced from stress.

As part of the Polish resistance against the Nazis, he infiltrated a concentration camp and quickly found out it was far worst from anything the Resistance had imagined.

An inventory of stolen artwork seized by the Nazi's during World War II will be placed on an international database so the narratives of the lost items can be pieced together.

In an act of unspeakable horror, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France was massacred by German soldiers during World War II. Its ruins still stand today as a memorial.

An inventory of stolen artwork seized by the Nazi's during World War II will be placed on an international database so the narratives of the lost items can be pieced together.

By 1938, Hitler’s regime occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia. Their movement into Poland began World War II, which took the lives of over seventy million people.

Living in the Hermitage in the 900-day siege... As civilians began to get only 125 grams of bread a day, a half tablet of glue from the restoration stores was the height of luxury.