Historically, unconditional surrender to the United States has been followed by prolonged US military occupation.

Germany lodges an official protest against American soldiers using shotguns, citing medical reports from field hospitals that detail severe and often fatal injuries caused by buckshot. The U.S.

The former wartime Conservative Prime Minister made a number of concessions with Nazi Germany, including the 1938 Munich Agreement, which allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia.

This rare WW1 German bayonet was heavily rusted and worn by time. Corrosion covered the blade, guard, and fittings. Careful rust removal revealed solid steel beneath decades of oxidation. The ...

GIBBSTOWN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Memories of becoming a prisoner of war during WWII are fresh in Joseph Cucinotta's mind on his 103rd birthday. Cucinotta was born on February 8, 1923, in Gibbstown, New ...

SURPRISE, AZ (AZFamily) — Tom Copeland wears a name tag at a senior living community these days, but he used to wear dog tags. The 101-year-old World War II veteran received multiple medals for his ...

BERLIN — Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister, is a social democrat in a government led by conservatives, and the man now responsible for revamping and expanding the armed forces in a country ...

A horse-drawn “airplane” float, far right, enters the 1919 Armistice Day Victory Parade in Lebanon celebrating the end of World War I hostilities. Photos Courtesy of Art Pease I’m following the ghost ...

It’s been a long time coming, but Tech. Sgt. Clarence Gibbs will finally be among family. Gibbs’ remains were identified through DNA testing 80 years after the B-17 bomber he was aboard was shot down ...

A document representing the end of one of history’s most brutal regimes sold Wednesday night at RR Auction for $166,333, surpassing its pre-auction estimate of $100,000. Following Adolf Hitler’s ...

(May 8, 1945) WASHINGTON -- AP -- President Truman made arrangements Monday night to make a radio address at 8 p.m. Tuesday, presumably to proclaim the victory over Germany which is already known to ...