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 ...
In World War II, December 1944, a German armored commander captured a massive American fuel depot during the Battle of the ...
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 ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Before the Waffen-SS soldiers attacked the castle, Gangl had managed to phone members of the Austrian resistance in Wörgl, explaining the situation. The resistance ...
BERLIN – Guenter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era but later ran into controversy over his own World War II ...
BERLIN – German prosecutors are seeking a life prison sentence for a 92-year-old former Waffen SS member charged with killing a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944. Dutch-born Siert Bruins, now a German ...
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 ...
A former member of the SS is partially responsible for bringing a Nazi murderer to justice. Adalbert Lallier, born in Hungary, was drafted as a radio operator when he was a young man. He soon found ...