The Battle of the Atlantic, the prolonged and relentless struggle that for six years tilted the fate of the global conflict ...

German archaeologists discovered graves of soldiers from the Schmalkaldic War in Lauingen. The team from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) uncovered five burials containing ...

For many in the opening years of the Second World War, the vision of the menacing, gull-winged Stuka dive bomber, plunging vertically earthwards, its sirens wailing ...

Halbe, Germany — 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 coffins, ...

At the end of January, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (Social Democratic Party, SPD) stated in several interviews that Germany had to prepare for a direct war with the nuclear power Russia.

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first "Happy Time," followed by the second "Happy Time," and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II. Her archival research demonstrates that the Soviets saw the German prisoners of ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, right, talks to soldiers during a visit to Bundeswehr tank battalion 203 at the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks in Augustdorf, Germany, Wednesday, February 1, ...

The German War Graves Commission held a ceremony on August 27 in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas to mark the 1 millionth German war dead reburied since the end of the Cold War. The commission buried the ...