The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of Nazi ideology. Only in ...

The early period of the war, 1939-41, was successful for the German army and there was little ill-effect on the civilian population. In fact, early military successes actually gave rise to ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The German military in January 1943 shot Polish soldiers and officers in the USSR’s Smolensk Region and then buried their bodies in the Katyn forest, according to ...

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across ... (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

Arthur Crossland Jr. was killed fighting German forces during WWII. On March 14, 2025, the Columbia native received a proper ...