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Re-enactors who portray German and Allied soldiers at Rockford World War II Days. “There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of ...
France: Exhumation of German WWII soldiers begins 08/16/2023 August 16, 2023. Work has begun on digging up a mass grave containing the bodies of German POWs shot by resistance fighters in 1944.
A former German POW during World War II, Wally King of Ohio, will soon be celebrating his 100th birthday and will be marking the occasion with a return trip to Germany.
It has been 85 years since the German occupation began in Jersey during World War Two. But 92-year-old David Isherwood still ...
Too often, re-enactors "make World War II into a battle between German soldiers and Americans" and don't consider the millions of people German forces killed, Palama said.
The soldiers had been ordered to pile up their equipment near the barn, including helmets, shortly before they were executed. Two years later, Le Paradis's citizens persuaded the German ...
German army soldiers not wanting to end up as criminals of war wrested the political prisoners from the SS and took them to the hotel, whose owner agreed to put them up at risk to her own life ...
German specialists were to begin a search on Tuesday for the bodies of 46 Wehrmacht soldiers shot dead during World War II in southwestern France.. The hunt for the mass grave in a forested area ...
They had been ordered to hold back the German advance across France for as long as possible, to enable the evacuation of nearly 340,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk.