Behind the flags propaganda and grand strategies of World War II were ordinary soldiers forming their own hard opinions about ...

World War II is often reduced to simple sides and slogans, but the men who fought it saw a far more complicated reality.

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

FRANKFURT, Jan. 23 — Although they were defeated in World War II, German soldiers and officers did not lose their individual honor, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower declared this morning as he took off from ...

“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...

80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...

A search began in France on Tuesday for the remains of dozens of German soldiers said to have been executed by French Resistance fighters during World War II. The Barron's news department was not ...

American soldiers and German troops fought Waffen-SS units together in Czechoslovakia on April 28, 1945. The mission was to rescue some of Europe's rarest horses before the Soviet Red Army arrived.