On December 26, 1952, Boxing Day, 7 convicted Dutch Waffen-SS soldiers and war criminals managed to escape from a Dutch ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (Army News Service, June 9, 2014) -- Meeting at the notorious "bloody" Omaha beach here along the coast of northern France, two former enemies talked about what happened 70 years ...

Long ReadAs teenagers, Philippe Douroux, Alain Lejeune and Eric Frantz learned that their fathers had been among the 10,000 Frenchmen and 8,500 Walloons to enlist in the Waffen-SS. After decades of ...

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

But Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday that two of the pension recipients were Waffen-SS members after all. What role the two former Waffen-SS members may have had is not known, nor ...

Author Gunter Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, shocked the Germany when he revealed his membership in the infamous Nazi Waffen SS during World War II. German writer Peter ...

Police in Latvia arrested a man participating in a pro-Nazi march on Friday morning because he was carrying a poster with an image of soldiers killing Jews. The annual Remembrance Day of the Latvian ...

Horst Tappert is seen here at a ceremony in Munich in 2003 German broadcaster ZDF has dropped repeat showings of a popular detective series after it emerged its late star had hidden his Waffen SS past ...

German Jewish leader urges cancellation of pension payments to former SS members Josef Schuster says funds to former Nazi employees wounded in service and living abroad are ‘intolerable’ By Toby ...