World & Nation
Manchin, the Democrat turned independent from West Virginia, became the latest lawmaker to urge Biden to end his reelection campaign.
July 21, 2024
Movies
Vanessa Lapa’s documentary, “The Decent One,” brings the epistolary form to documentary, using narrated excerpts from a trove of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler’s diaries and letters — including those of his wife, Margarete, his parents and even eldest daughter Gudrun — to create a sort of how-did-he-get-here slice of grim history.
Oct. 9, 2014
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questions Atty. Gen.
June 13, 2017
Science & Medicine
With IBM colleague Gerd Binnig, Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which can show individual atoms on a surface and move them around.
May 23, 2013
Obituaries
Heinrich Boere was a member of a Nazi Waffen SS hit squad during World War II. He avoided justice for six decades, but was convicted in 2010 on three counts of murder.
Dec. 4, 2013
He is the last known surviving member of the German resistance group that tried to assassinate Hitler. His attempt to kill Hitler in February 1944 fell apart.
March 13, 2013
Technology and the Internet
German physicist Heinrich Hertz has been honored with his very own wavy Google Doodle on what would have been his 155th birthday.
Feb. 22, 2012
Business
Google Doodle celebrates German physicist Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz: Google Doodle for a guy who rode a wave
Television
“The New Look,” now on Apple TV+, examines the lives and careers of French fashion designers Christian Dior and Coco Chanel during and after World War II.
Feb. 14, 2024