Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...

In Heather Clark’s novel, “The Scrapbook,” an American girl meets a German boy and falls head over heels — and headfirst into ...

Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in ...

This, in summary, was the core message in the speech given by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on May 8 to mark the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Hitler’s Wehrmacht.

During these dying days of WW2, a small medieval castle in the Austrian Alps became the backdrop to one of the war’s strangest and most unlikely battles. The Battle for Castle Itter is the only ...

Since then, Handler, who retired in 2023, has pivoted to a subject that’s far removed from local news, but very close to her heart: Her first book, A German Jew’s Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer ...

During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943.

On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. teamed up with a number of Wehrmacht soldiers under German major ...

Books: German Conscience; Books: German Conscience. 3 minute read. ... (himself a chaplain in World War II) ... the Fiihrer’s Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon.