But in his free time, Stemkens roams the nearby forests on both sides of the border, armed with the metal detector he uses to ...

German soldier Alfred Liskow, who defected to the Soviets shortly before the launch of Operation Barbarossa, was warmly welcomed. However, his unexpected conflict with the Soviet leadership cost ...

Maybe you didn’t want your kid to play with toy guns or toy soldiers, so you gave him some wholesome, creative Lego bricks.

During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

Of all the German innovations of WW2, it was the blatant copying, or downright direct use, of captured German Type XXI submarines that can clearly be labeled as “stealing” by Allied forces.

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A German brigade has started operations in Lithuania, a NATO state that borders part of Russia. It's the first time Germany has put troops in another country on a long-term basis since World War II.

German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid a wreath at the Neue Wache, Germany's central memorial to victims of war and tyranny, alongside federal leaders Anke Rehlinger, Julia ...

This week marks 80 years since World War II ended, but the search for soldiers' remains continues. The war’s effects are still being felt, and the work to find and identify the dead is not yet ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II.

Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) ...

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II. HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin ...