When the last surviving soldiers of the First World War – British Tommies and French poilus alike – died a few years ago, national newspapers in London and Paris, but also in Canberra, Wellington and ...
A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to shoot any American medics who might try ...
After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...
WASHINGTON — The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a ...
A German-dominated Europe, but no World War II, no Holocaust, and very likely no Communism — not a bad trade-off for a German victory in WWI. In the early 20th century, the Allied powers, especially ...
Polish PM Donald Tusk, under political pressure from the nationalist opposition, criticized Germany for refusing to pay war ...
Current events are frequently viewed through the prism of analogies. Words become shorthand for a particular type of situation. “Munich” equals the danger of appeasing bloodthirsty dictators, “Vietnam ...
A century-old wartime vessel has been identified off the coast of England. Wind farm developers were scanning the seabed off the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk when their sonar detected an unusually ...
The wreck of a German ship from World War I has been uncovered after a recent storm came through Cornwall, England, and unearthed it. Known as the SV Carl, the ship was seen for approximately one hour ...
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