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Nazi Germany’s Mighty “Gustav” Cannon Was the Stuff of Nightmares
Like so many of the Nazis’ weapon designs, the Gustav gun was fantastically expensive and completely impractical.
The Meaning of Germany’s Dramatic Rearmament
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to make history with his vow to create the 'strongest conventional army in Europe,' writes ...
80 years after Hitler’s war of annihilation in the east: Germany establishes combat brigade against Russia in Lithuania
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor ...
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Remembering Walter Frankenstein, a Jewish man who lived in Berlin throughout WWII
During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. One of them, Walter Frankenstein, died in April at age 100.
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The Strange Incident that Changed WW2
In early 1940, the German tanker Altmark, secretly carrying nearly 300 Allied POWs, attempted to evade British detection by sailing through Norwegian waters, under protection from a Norwegian escort.
Germany deploys permanent troops to another country for the first time since World War II
Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a groundbreaking German brigade in Lithuania that is meant to help protect NATO’s ...