In May 1945, as Nazi Germany collapsed, a bizarre battle unfolded at Castle Itter in Austria. American troops from the U.S.

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

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 ...

To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard Waffen-SS. Europe was filled with large groups of refugees, ...

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 ...

The story of the atrocities committed by the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 is now familiar: Jews and commissars were murdered out of hand, the millions of Red Army POWs were ...

Amid the Twitter verification brouhaha and suspensions of verified users who changed their name to “Elon Musk,” the platform’s new billionaire owner drew more fire Monday for sharing an image of a ...