Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

As Germany marks 80 years since the end of World War II, one historic Berlin site is grappling with how to commemorate the Soviets’ crucial role in defeating Nazism against the backdrop of Russia’s ...

How did spies, curators, and an army of art handlers save some of the world's most important artwork? An excerpt from the new ...

4. The obercommand of the wehrmacht must guarantee to forward and enforce the execution of all orders by the Allied commands. Friedeburg tried to compromise; he complained many German soldiers ...

Price Day, former editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun and Sunday Sun, witnessed the German surrender at Reims, ...

German Gen Franz Uhle-Wettler writes ... the addition of a new technological element-tanks-brought about a major shift at the operational level in World War II. That shift was blitzkrieg. In the ...

The story of the kidnapping of German Major General Heinrich Kreipe on Crete during World War II is one of patriotism and ...

In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously ... 80 years after WWII ended. (AP ...