The MP40 became one of the most recognizable German firearms of II. Carried by German soldiers across Europe[...] ...

In the final days of World War II, photographer David Scherman captured a remarkable series of images in Siegsdorf, Bavaria, ...

After Germany surrendered in 1945, the nation was divided into four zones. Each zone controlled by a different Allied nation (the United States, France, United Kingdom or the Soviet Union). By 1949, ...

Discover the pivotal events between 1918 and 1942 that shaped the first half of World War II. This timeline traces that path ...

Germany has embarked on an immediate project to recover tons of munitions that were scattered on the floor of the North and ...

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...

A motorway in south-western Germany will be temporarily closed off on Thursday evening while experts defuse a World War II bomb found nearby. The operator of an excavator found the unexploded ...

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient ...

Metal detecting at a former German position on the Western Front uncovers a gas mask with green paint and its eye pieces still visible. The careful excavation reveals the mask in striking condition, ...