On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

At a former WWII German camp site abandoned in late 1944, metal detectorists document what remained around the barracks foundations and dump pits, including medical tubes, enamel mugs and signs, ...

American soldiers and German troops fought Waffen-SS units together in Czechoslovakia on April 28, 1945. The mission was to rescue some of Europe's rarest horses before the Soviet Red Army arrived.

The crowd watches the battle at the Rockford World War II Days event at Midway Village Museum on Sept. 24, 2022. Ted O’Sullivan portrays a German WWII officer at the Rockford World War II Days event ...

Seventy-seven years after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht during World War II, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democrats) used the anniversary to justify an unprecedented rearmament ...

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst is showing a small but significant open-air exhibition, “Dimensions ...

“What did you do in the war?” That was the question Chicoan Lois Buchter put to cousin Gertrude Leicht during Buchter’s visit with her extended family in Germany. The answer astonished her. Drawing on ...

On June 22, 1941, the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe struck Soviet forces across a wide front along the German-Soviet frontier. Romanian forces attacked into Soviet-occupied Bessarabia on the same day ...

Key Point: Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was possibly the greatest strategist and field commander in the German Wehrmacht. In January 1943, the once-invincible German Wehrmacht was reeling, being ...