In September 1939, following Germany’s invasion of Poland, France launched a limited offensive across the border into the ...

Born Heinz Berthold Karplus in Berlin, Germany, to Sigmar Karplus and Rosa (née Anker) Karplus. Henry and his younger sister Hannah Elsa (Shamash) escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 on a Kindertransport ...

In Berlin, one George P. Murdock, young American now circumambulating in Germany, summed up social and economic conditions as follows: “The economic situation is appalling. Prices are much higher than ...