After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine. In ...

For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of Nazi ideology. Only in ...

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across ... (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ...

Smalley’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Rhône American Cemetery, Draguignan, France, along with others ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a media conference at the end of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana) Overhauling the military was a key promise of ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.