More than 100 people packed into the base chapel this week at Patch Barracks, where some military families voiced opposition to recent Pentagon executive orders.

Patch Middle School at the U.S. Army's Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. About 55 of the school's students on Tuesday held a walkout during a visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the installation for meetings with service members and military officials. (John Vandiver/Stars and Stripes)

Middle schoolers at a U.S. military school in Germany chanted 'DEI' at a protest against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday.

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of DEI initiatives.

In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice.

An Afghan man with suspected Islamist sympathies went on trial in Germany on Thursday on charges of murder and attempted murder after a stabbing attack targeting a political rally in the western city of Mannheim.

The defense secretary said he is more aligned with the rank-and-file troops than the leaders he’s now tasked to work with after working out with troops.

In all, it was a bruising, 72-hour crash course in the geopolitical realities of a job that critics complain Mr. Hegseth, a 44-year-old former National Guard infantryman and Fox News host, is unqualified to hold. Mr. Hegseth’s trip to Europe, his first overseas visit since being sworn in on Jan. 25, started off on an unusual note.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg.