Hundreds of villagers and relatives of fallen soldiers watched silently, some wiping tears off their cheeks, as the soldiers ...

Jack Lee. Gangl went up to Lee, who was chewing on an unlit cigar and ready to hear the German officer out on the bizarre rescue mission he was proposing. As Harding noted, the Germans and the ...

The date 7 March 1945 was another dreary day in the German Occupation of Jersey ... For the years of Occupation it bustled with high ranking officers coming and going in their staff cars, planning ...

As friends do, France and Germany have supported each other through recent calamities, too. Chancellor Angela Merkel sped to ...

The British military officer then lodged a formal complaint, prompting an urgent investigation by Germany's defence ministry. According to German news website Der Spiegel, Renk admitted to making ...

Graeme Delanoe said the items he collected helped tell the story of the German Occupation Graeme Delanoe is a collector of Occupation artefacts - concealed behind two heavy reinforced doors at his ...

The pact, signed by senior German officers, agreed a ceasefire on the British fronts in north west Germany, Denmark and Holland as from 8am on May 5. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth, File) Advertisement ...

Senior German officers, from left, Maj. Friedel, Rear Adm. Wagner, Adm. Hans-Georg Von Friedeburg, Gen. Eberhard Kinzel and Col. Pollek, arrive at Montgomery's 21st Army Group headquarters ...

wearing a World War II veteran baseball cap. But Eisenhower did want to see the defeated officers, so the young American soldier took them to him. “He wouldn’t shake hands with them.

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust ... AP’s Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a French schoolhouse, and was the first ...

"We thought the Germans might want to carry on with the war." He saw a senior German officer sitting a deckchair, smoking, and plenty of Russian prisoners of war who were happy to see the allied ...