“We have a billion films about the war and we have a billion films and series about the Cold War,” Mårlind says over Zoom.

Change begins in darkness, apparently. And the places where New York cop Max McLaughlin pursues his investigations could hardly be darker. In the ZDF series “The Defeated”, Swedish showrunner Måns ...

While the war was officially over, Berlin in the summer of 1946 was in chaos. The city was the cradle of East and West superpowers; no laws existed, and everyone was either a criminal or a survivor.

Even in supposedly post-nazi Berlin, the eponymous hero of The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson (Abacus, £7.99) has a secret that could still get him jailed, or worse. It’s 1946 and, amid the ...

Raymond D'Addario was 26 years old when the U.S. Army assigned him to photograph the Nuremberg War Trials from 1945 to 1946. D'Addario also spent time in the former Nazi capital of Berlin ...