The mayor of a German town has refused demands to take down an SS helmet that decorates the grave of a Nazi general. The headstone of Hermann Kriebel, the Obergruppenführer of the Sturmabteilung ...

The 'SS' acronym appeared on helmets, sleeping bags and waterproof jackets issued to troops. The German Federal Ministry of Defense has since ordered the combat equipment removed, and did not ...

The ministry recently distributed about 313,000 uniforms, helmets, sleeping bags, trousers and jackets to the troops at a cost of $2.4 billion (2.3 billion euros), the Times of London reported.

Without realising this error, in recent weeks, the German federal Ministry of Defence distributed about 313,000 pieces of combat equipment such as helmets, sleeping bags and waterproof jackets to ...

German army uniforms have been mistakenly issued with "SS" size labels after a "production problem" reportedly occurred when the initials were thought to be an acronym for the size: “small, short." ...