The security guarantees include a US-led monitoring mechanism and a European multinational force that would be deployed after ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army. They were stuck in a pocket of around 48 kilometers wide and 20 kilometers ...

In France during World War II, German alcohol shipments helped to provide crucial intelligence for the Allies.

Germany at war, Signal magazine. Wehrmacht infantrymen marching across France, 1940. German submarine U-8 was a Type IIB U-boat of the German Kriegsmarine, based out of Kiel during World War II. It ...

Jose Antonio Kast (59) hat noch keine politische Entscheidung im Amt getroffen. Er wird ohnehin erst am 11. März nächsten Jahres seine Präsidentschaft in Chile antreten. Und doch wird der klare ...

German Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (second left) and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier view recruits taking part in the ceremonial pledge, as a central event to mark the 70th anniversary of the ...

German generals didn’t fear Eisenhower as a battlefield genius—they feared him as the man who held the Allies together. From dismissing him as a “politician in uniform” to finally respecting his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a dimly lit room in the Museum of Gdańsk, visitors are confronted with two-dozen portraits that are lined up ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...

Um die „Ehrenhäftlinge“ zu retten, die auf Schloss Itter in Tirol inhaftiert waren, verbündeten sich im Mai 1945 Soldaten der Wehrmacht und der US Army. Als die Waffen-SS mit Übermacht angriff, kam es ...

Herr Ohler, die Wehrmacht orderte 1940 rund 35 Millionen Tabletten des Methamphetamins "Pervitin" in Vorbereitung auf den Westfeldzug gegen Frankreich. Sind deutsche Soldaten enthemmt und aufgeputscht ...

Vor dreissig Jahren erregte die Wanderausstellung «Vernichtungskrieg. Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944» die Gemüter in Deutschland. Zuvor hatten sich weite Teile der deutschen Bevölkerung in der ...