German Army

MISSOULA, Montana  — Capt. Bo Foster had an extraordinary mission: Fly captured Nazi leader Hermann Goering to the 7th Army's headquarters for…

It’s been 60 years since Ilana Raday and her mother fled the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, or Kovne as the Jews called it, just before the German army…

There’s a lot more to Beersheba than meets the eye. A good place to start exploring some of its hidden treasures lies at the top of a short driveway…

BERLIN — In its biggest military reform in more than 50 years, Germany announced Wednesday its plans to end conscription next summer and trim down…

BERLIN — In its biggest military reform in more than 50 years, Germany plans to end conscription next summer and trim down from 250,000 troops to a…

BERLIN— A German army officer convicted of ordering a wartime massacre of Italian civilians said he is in too poor health to serve time in jail on…

Red Army veteran Shalom Scopas defies his 85 years as he dashes about the mini-museum of World War II memorabilia he has created in the basement of…

A commission of historians has discovered that the Finance Ministry in Germany was more involved in Jewish persecution carried out by the Nazis than…

A commission of historians has discovered that the finance ministry in Germany was more involved in Jewish persecution carried out by the Nazis than…

Mietek Grocher Visits KKL-JNF Sweden Sites throughout Israel"I have many friends here," Mietek Grocher said as he read the various names of Swedish…

Somali pirates seized a German freight ship off the coast of Kenya on Sunday — the second commercial vessel to be captured in the region in as many…

The Chief of Staff of the German armed forces, General Volker Wieker, visited Yad Vashem yesterday on an historic visit by the German army’s highest…

General Volker Wieker toured Yad Vashem yesterday on a historic visit by the German army’s highest ranking officer to the museum which commemorates…

The living conditions of thousands of Holocaust survivors in Israel has been improving over the past two years thanks to several government…

In 1868, a large group of German Templers landed in Haifa. Although they bore the same name as the Crusaders who were based on the Temple Mount…

The Lutetia Hotel in Paris, once occupied by Nazi officers and later by survivors of concentration camps, was recently purchased by Alrov, the…

KABUL, Afghanistan — A minibus full of civilians struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, and Afghan officials said six of those…

A Latvian district court ruling on Tuesday has paved the way for the first-ever post- World War II march on Thursday in celebration of a Nazi…

Decades before the movie Defiance gripped audiences with its striking account of Jewish resistance in the forests of Belorussia, Tuvia Bielski, the…

Piotrkow Trybunalski, a county seat in the German-occupied Polish Lodz District, was one of the first ghettos, set up in October 1939 by the…