Thousands of European volunteers who had joined the Waffen SS found themselves abandoned, surrounded, and left with nowhere ...

Young men graduating from high school in the mid-1960s had to choose between enrolling in college or most likely, being ...

Minnesota World War II veteran Les Schrenk recently got a chance to visit the former POW camp in Poland where he was held ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I travel to Eastern Germany to visit Colditz Castle, home to troublesome Allied Prisoners of War! Believed to be the perfect prison camp for prisoners who had made ...

Discover the best German soccer players of all time in our top 10 ranking featuring legends like Franz Beckenbauer, Miroslav Klose, Gerd Müller, Lothar Matthäus, and Manuel Neuer.

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany—Driving toward the German village of Ramstein-Miesenbach feels like entering a twilight zone. It is no longer Germany, but it isn’t quite America either. The density of ...

Ramstein Air Base, America's largest military airfield overseas, is located in Western Germany. Trump is threatening a massive withdrawal of U.S. forces, accusing European countries of being ...

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany ...

It is now the first far-right party in Germany’s post-World War II history to have attained such broad levels of public popularity, and it has also significantly increased its share of seats in ...

Germany’s parliamentary elections on Sunday drew unusually strong interest in the country. The voter turnout rate was 82.5%, the highest such figure since reunification.

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Under somber gray skies, Germany commemorated National Day of Mourning on Nov. 17, honoring the victims of war and tyranny across the world.

A fall from grace for FCK Kaiserslautern has long been a giant of German soccer. It stems from the post-war period where their players made up the spine of West Germany’s victorious 1954 World Cup ...