Europe

Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out on November 9-10, 1938, throughout Nazi Germany by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS- ᛋᛋ) paramilitary forces, with the participation from the Hitler...

On Wednesday, Germany rejected the claim of Thessaloniki’s Greek Jewish Community  regarding the return of a ransom which appears to have been paid during the Nazi occupation of Greece in World War II. A German official of the finance ministry stated...

On the occasion of the recent entry of the far-right party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) in the Greek Parliament after the May 6 elections, prominent politicians and intellectuals from across Europe have signed an open letter warning of the...

Nazi Germany was responsible for countless atrocities within its own country and others. Of course, the Nazi government was primarily responsible for these terrible actions. However, what role did religion play? After all, Nazi Germany was overwhelmingly an ostensibly...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has canceled his planned trip to Israel after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's plane was evacuated on the Ben Gurion Airport runway following a rocket attack on Tuesday evening. Greek government sources said the decision to...

Dassault Aviation is the company behind the Rafale aircraft that Greece has acquired to help protect its borders.

There is a Turkish town called Catalca that is full of Greek speakers, many of whom have a distinct northern Greek accent.

A 97-year-old woman who worked as a secretary for the Nazi commander of the Stutthof concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of over 10,500 people at the camp. Irmgard Furchner was employed as a shorth-hand typist...

Russian President Vladimir Putin officially annexed the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, known together as the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, along with two other regions. In a ceremony at the Kremlin on Friday, September 30th, he pronounced that the regions...

If we are to consider meaningful communities for Hellenism, Vienna should surely be on the short list with its little Greece.

The volcanic explosions of the year 536 caused researchers to state recently that that year was definitively "the worst year to be alive."

Russia's foreign minister has been blasted by Israel for claiming Adolf Hitler "had Jewish origins" and that "some of the worst anti-Semites are Jews." Sergei Lavrov hit out at Ukraine's president during an interview with Italian media, saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy's...

The history of the Greeks’ presence on the northern shore of the Black Sea, what is now Ukraine and Russia, goes back millennia, even before the Classical Greek era. The Myceneans, one of history’s first seafaring cultures, knew the Black...

UNESCO, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says it is "gravely concerned" over its listed sites in Ukraine which are threatened by the Russian invasion of the country. Sites of supreme Ukrainian importance have already sustained damage, including one...

Putin’s defense for his war on Ukraine is repeating Russia's trope that Ukraine is not a real nation, and that Ukrainians are not a real people.  But it is his punitive passion to resurrect Russia’s past from the graveyard...