Seattle police shot and killed a University of Washington senior who was dressed in a World War II-era German uniform and who officers say was brandishing a long rifle with a bayonet early ...

They ran over to it and tugged at it. A German uniform fell out. It was from one of the prisoners of war. They took it to the police expecting a reward but instead they were told off because they ...

Leutnant Friedrich Sander lost faith in the German war machine after cracking during the brutal Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began in June 1941.

There was little enemy action, but large numbers of German refugees were passing my ... the only item of uniform was my beret and it had struck me that if I had been taken prisoner, I might ...