Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers ...

The gestures of remembrance are part of a long, complicated — and sometimes controversial — effort to bring the dead to rest, ...

Workers of the German War Graves Commission exhume the remains of German WWII soldiers in Ostrołęka, Poland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski Seiger and her family make a ...

BERLIN - The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to "instrumentalise" events marking the 80th anniversary of World War Two after the Russian ambassador to Berlin attended ...

World War II ... German companies, and later in German-occupied territory. Aircraft manufacturers could choose their paint producer, but all had to stick to the standards laid out by the official ...

The most common characteristic of German fighters during WWII wasn't a pinup on the side ... and they could vary in color as well. Like anything during warfare, there's a reason for the spiral.

The date 7 March 1945 was another dreary day in the German Occupation of Jersey. Islanders and Germans alike went about their business, all suffering from the deprivations inevitable after five ...

Friedrich Merz has become Germany's new chancellor after winning a second vote in the country's parliament. He unexpectedly failed in the first parliamentary ballot on Tuesday morning - the first ...

Red Army soldiers hoist the Soviet flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945. The German Parliament (Bundestag) has excluded the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus from the main commemoration ...

Graeme Delanoe said the items he collected helped tell the story of the German Occupation Graeme Delanoe is a collector of Occupation artefacts - concealed behind two heavy reinforced doors at his ...