German WWII soldiers get proper burial after 60 years. By David Keys and London. January 7, 2008 — 11.00am. ... controversy has surrounded the reburial of several hundred Dutch Waffen SS men.

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 ...

Harrowing pictures from the latter stages of the war include a frozen SS soldier laying face-down in the snow, and the aftermath of a fierce German counter-attack in Belgium. 19 ...

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.

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.

The operation to deliver German prisoners-of-war to Moscow and hold the parade was named in honor of the 1938 U.S. musical film The Great Waltz, which was very popular in the Soviet Union.

With 642 victims, it was the largest massacre numerically in Western Europe during World War II. The Waffen SS murdered almost every resident of Oradour, with only six surviving. The village was ...

Women who had relationships with occupying German soldiers faced official retaliation after the war. "For many, this was just a teenage love," Prime Minister Erna Solberg said.

It has been 85 years since the German occupation began in Jersey during World War Two. But 92-year-old David Isherwood still ...