and even in some cases in lesser jobs in combat units, non-Germans now are used to fill in so as to release Germans for more crucial tasks. There are, of course, no exact statistics regarding the ...

While German industry gears up to transform the army, the chancellor-in-waiting is also making a pitch to return German ...

About two dozen German soldiers arrived in Lithuania, laying the groundwork for a further 150 to join them later this year to ...

The level of combat readiness of many units of the German armed forces is only 50%. In addition, the army needs to recruit ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) alleges that Putin is planning to test how seriously NATO countries will take ...

A document published by the military leadership of KAPD's Helbra sub-district under the command of Schönfeld that lists out ...

Known as auxiliary units, they were to be Britain's last ... It doesn’t seem like much to face the might of the German army. BOB MILLARD: Well, our objective was not to face the might of the ...

On March 18, 1945, Army 1st Lt. Jack Lemaster Treadwell saw ... and other defenses designed to slow the Allied advance. The German pillboxes had pinned down Treadwell’s Fox Company of the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One in four new recruits to the German armed forces drops out within six months of joining, according to ...