Jeffrey Herf, Professor of Modern European History, University of Maryland, College Park "Thomas Berger’s War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II is a masterful comprehensive account ...

National WWII Museum Patton was part of American occupation forces in Germany after the war when he headed out on a hunting trip with his friend, Major General Hobart R. Gay. Patton sat in the ...

The American military forces in the Federal Republic of Germany after WWII played an important role not just in the NATO military alliance but also in German-American relations as a whole. Around ...

FRANCE - For decades after WWII, Germany became the industrial engine of Europe. It remained that way until two years ago. Then, its economy slumped and, after that, went dormant. Once by far ...

The five years after World War One were a period of turmoil and instability for Germany: Germany had lost World War One and was severely punished by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

Britain had been at war with Germany since Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. The USSR allied itself with Britain in 1941 when Germany began to invade its territories. In December 1941 ...

Thousands of residents in Hamburg's Sternschanze district were evacuated after a World War II-era bomb was discovered ... Soviet bombing raids is common in Germany, and they are typically defused ...

German police will evacuate about 70,000 people from their homes on Sunday after an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in Frankfurt. It will be one of the biggest operations of its kind ...