On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied ...
Eight hundred boys, Hungarian Jews aged between 13 and 17, were marched in driving rain from Block 11 at Auschwitz-Birkenau by bayonet-wielding SS guards before being stripped, beaten with sticks and ...
Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...
In 24 days during the fall of 1946, a German novelist known as Hans Fallada produced a rare, and now especially timely, literary touchstone: a humane depiction of muted resistance. Every Man Dies ...
Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday implored Germans to either embrace uncomfortable reforms or watch their economy fade. “Our nation is in the midst of an important, perhaps decisive phase in ...
After the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, many believe the fighting simply stopped but for over 11,000 trapped German soldiers, surrender was never an option. In this gripping World War II ...
In World War II, both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. As the World War I armistice was being negotiated, Germany won small concessions, but the allies generally imposed their will, an ...
SUMMON THE idea of the German at play, and chances are you see a rosy-cheeked Lederhosen- or Dirndl-clad youngster bearing half a dozen overflowing steins of beer. Never mind that—as the rest of ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Nearly two-thirds of Germans support a European nuclear deterrent independent of the United States, according to a new poll released Monday, marking a dramatic shift in public ...