Five German escapees - four paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor - fled a POW camp in Granville, France, seeking a daring ...

The Battle of Nuremberg, one of the last American battles in Europe in World War II, saw the 7th Army engage in days of ...

Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best.

Even when companies do not face legal liability, public pressure can help force a reckoning with complicity in genocide, ...

Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the Dachau concentration camp.

Relics of war still linger in this German city but the Saxon capital is defined by a defiant spirit of renewal, with a ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known ...

Mendel Mueller, a Jew born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was incarcerated in two Nazi concentration camps: Buchenwald in ...

Leaders of the German Jewish community applauded the conviction. Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said: "It is not about putting her behind bars for the rest of her ...

Her trial in Itzehoe had garnered particular attention as she was the first woman in several decades to be prosecuted in Germany for crimes during the Nazi era. The German justice system had tried ...

Irmgard Furchner, known as the 'Secretary of Evil' and convicted for abetting more than 10,500 murders as a Nazi death camp secretary, has passed away at the age of 99. Furchner's death ...

Protesters at the event and posters in Facebook community groups said the flag displaying a symbol of Nazi Germany was in poor taste. That doesn’t make it illegal, however, Brueggeman said.