Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...

As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...

Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...

Haunting photographs document the scene in the bunker beneath Berlin where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married -- and where they died.

In the spring of 1945, as Soviet forces surrounded the German capital, the war in Berlin became a desperate struggle for survival rather than a coordinated defense. This episode follows the experience ...

BERLIN — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival as the ...