Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know? Irena Sendler was living in Poland at the beginning of WWII, by which point the Germans had made helping Jews punishable by death. But Sendler, raised by a father who believed helping people – all people – who were in trouble was the right

Author: Karl Smallwood / Source: Today I Found Out In the opening days of WW1, Unterseeboots, better known simply as U-boats, proved to be a potent and constant threat to Allied ships, with one U-boat identified as SM U-9 infamously killing nearly 1,500 British sailors in less than an hour by

Author: Melissa Eddy / Source: New York Times Personal information about hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, was leaked by an anonymous Twitter account. None of those lawmakers were from the far-right party Alternative for Germany. Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think The majority of Germans don’t trust the U.S. when it comes to geopolitical affairs, according to a new survey that highlights anti-Americanism that’s both deep-rooted and growing in the nation. The survey, issued by German public broadcaster ZDF to