Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...
Leutnant Friedrich Lengfeld served as a German company commander during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in WWII. (1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry) During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a ...
In this rare firsthand account, a German veteran who served on an 88mm flak gun describes what it was really like behind one ...