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.

When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...

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 ...

What would happen if they threw a war and nobody came?” That rather naïve supposition was pondered on posters and t-shirts in ...

Operation Good Cheer is a decades-old program that matches U.S. soldiers with German families during the holidays.

Casey Chong presents a selection of underrated World War II romance movies to add to your watchlist… World War II has ...

On a cold Christmas Eve in 1914, something extraordinary happened along the Western Front of World War I. The sound of ...

Germany is to send troops to Poland's eastern border in an effort to strengthen NATO's eastern flank. Meanwhile, Berlin has ...

In France, between 1941 and 1945, around 200,000 children are estimated to have been born from a union between a French woman ...

A Jewish organization helped him flee as a teen. Years later as a US soldier, my father went in search of the parents he'd ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...