Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s ...

Germany's ruling coalition has passed a test of unity after voting on a pension reform bill. Earlier, lawmakers approved a controversial government plan to boost the country's military. DW has more.

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

While exploring the forests of the Eastern Front, the team uncovers one of their most astonishing sequences of relics yet — a ...

Sawicka, Hugo Boss's success is attributed to being the "creator of Nazi elegance," supplying uniforms to the Hitler Youth ...

America faded away into the distance. Her last speck of land reached out until our new home gave way to the open sea. I turned around and got a glimpse of distant luxury: a transatlantic liner turned ...

In autumn 1943 SAS Lieutenant Alistair McGregor (pictured) and his seven men were dropped deep behind enemy lines, on Winston Churchill's personal orders.

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...