Was the Desert Fox an honest soldier or just another Nazi? The reputation of Erwin Rommel, a German general admired by Churchill, is now looking tarnished ...

There he decided to desert. In his last letter to his wife Erna on Nov. 25 he wrote: ... Information about this German soldier fighting against the German army even reached Berlin.

The story of how one of the first SAS soldiers escaped from a German desert camp during the Second World War has emerged, 30 years after his death, as his medals for bravery are put up for auction.

German soldiers served in Somalia as part of a U.N.-led peace-mission from 1993 to 1994, but were pulled out, along with American troops, after 18 U.S. soldiers were killed.

A fluent German speaker, he had been captured in North Africa by the Afrika Korps in late 1941, had escaped, and, wearing bits of German army uniform, made his way across the desert back to Allied ...

Meissner is a 19-year-old science student when he’s drafted into the German Army. He spends five long years evading death as a soldier and two more confined to the gulag.

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