Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of Nazi ideology. Only in ...

Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk ...

Klaus Pfisterer, of the German Peace Society — United War Resisters, a campaign group, said many of them did military service years ago, before conscription was abolished in 2011, and had then ...

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across ... (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ...

The early period of the war, 1939-41, was successful for the German army and there was little ill-effect on the civilian population. In fact, early military successes actually gave rise to ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

Army Pfc. Arthur W. Crossland Jr., who was killed during World War II, is coming home ... March 1945 at age 19 while engaged in battle with German forces near Althorn, France.

Adolf Hitler served in the German army in World War One, and in 1919 joined the German Workers’ Party. This would go on to become the Nazi Party. After a failed attempt to take over Germany in ...