Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on ...

German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk ...

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

German soldiers of the mountain troops take part in an exercise during a visit by German Defense Minister Pistorius. The number of German army soldiers has sunk to 181,500, despite major efforts by ...

German troops would be welcome in Poland to strengthen NATO's eastern flank against any threat posed by Russia, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna has said. His comments could signal a ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has described the start of a German brigade in Lithuania as a key step to improve the deployment capability of NATO forces and "an important day for the ...

A German soldier told authorities that two Russian-speaking men assaulted him as he got into his car in Sulzbach-Rosenberg earlier this week, according to an Oberpfalz police statement Wednesday. The ...

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

On Christmas 1914, thousands of WWI enemies briefly laid down their guns, meeting in No Man’s Land to sing carols, swap gifts and even play soccer.

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

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Western Front of World War I participated in the 1914 Christmas Truce. They left their trenches and ventured into no man’s ...