After Germany surrendered in 1945, the nation was divided into four zones. Each zone controlled by a different Allied nation (the United States, France, United Kingdom or the Soviet Union). By 1949, ...

During the early years of World War II, Germany's Wehrmacht achieved rapid victories through coordinated armored offensives, ...

Throughout World War II, German troops repeatedly found themselves surrounded by Soviet forces with little hope of survival.

Discover the pivotal events between 1918 and 1942 that shaped the first half of World War II. This timeline traces that path from the bitter conclusion of the First World War through the ascendancy of ...

The MP40 became one of the most recognizable German firearms of II. Carried by German soldiers across Europe[...] ...

Germany has embarked on an immediate project to recover tons of munitions that were scattered on the floor of the North and Baltic seas at the end ...

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...

A motorway in south-western Germany will be temporarily closed off on Thursday evening while experts defuse a World War II bomb found nearby. The operator of an excavator found the unexploded ...

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships — and even the remains of an ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man walks on the sandbank by the wreckage of a WWII German warship, emerged due to the drought, in front of Djerdap II, a large ...

Large parts of Dresden's Old Town were evacuated on Wednesday as experts sought to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb found during clearance work for a collapsed bridge. Some 17,000 people were ...