German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk to Normandy, that belief was tested, challenged, and ultimately overturned.
Polish leader Donald Tusk has warned that he will respond to incursions into his country’s territory. This raises the ...
What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...
Casey Chong presents a selection of underrated World War II romance movies to add to your watchlist… World War II has ...
Meanwhile, on December 26, Hoffmann’s party colleague, Manfred Weber, head of the European People’s Party and its group in the European Parliament, called for German troops to participate in efforts ...
Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...
Operation Good Cheer is a decades-old program that matches U.S. soldiers with German families during the holidays.
A journey into Hitler’s hidden forest headquarters in Poland, where key World War II campaigns were directed and the legacy ...
In May 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, a bizarre battle unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops from the U.S.
In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.