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It's been 73 years since the Battle for Remagen — here are 8 photos of the...
Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the old Roman town of Remagen, about halfway between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt on the Rhine River, at the end of World War II was the 1,000-foot, double-track...
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How Soviet troops taunted the Nazis during their final drive to Berlin in...
The final weeks of April 1945 saw Soviet troops advance on Berlin, bringing World War II in Europe to an end.Amid the Soviet onslaught and the confused Nazi retreat, Russian troops found ways to...
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What it was like in the room when Nazi Germany finally surrendered to end...
In the early-morning hours of May 7, 1945, the remnants of Nazi Germany's military leadership signed an unconditional surrender to Allied forces.When the news broke the next day, soldiers and civilians...
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A German far-right leader compared the Nazi era to 'a speck of bird s---' on...
At a youth conference on Saturday, a German far-right political leader downplayed the Nazi era in Germany's history.The party in question, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has risen to prominence in...
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'This is no swimming place for Nazis': German far-right leader has clothes...
BERLIN (Reuters) - The co-leader of a German anti-immigrant party had to walk to a police station from the shores of a lake outside Berlin wearing only his underwear after his clothes were stolen while...
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A Fox News host prompted Jeff Sessions to address comparisons of Trump...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday night appeared on Fox News, where the host Laura Ingraham prompted him to address comparisons between the Trump administration's family-separation policy at the...
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It's been 78 years since the Battle of Britain — here are 14 photos of the...
By mid-1940, Nazi Germany had swept over Western Europe, conquering France and holding territory from the English Channel to Norway.That summer, Hitler and the German Luftwaffe turned their attention...
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Germany's military is struggling amid rising tensions with Trump and Russia,...
Germany's military has shrunk since the Cold War.It's now struggling to add soldiers and to upgrade its equipment.Efforts to boost defense spending have been complicated by domestic politics — and by...
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These improvised Navy ships were like Venus fly traps for Nazi submarines
During World War II, the US Navy and Coast Guard were tasked with ruining the days of any and every Nazi submarine they could find, but those underwater dongs of death were notorious for staying hidden...
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79 years after the Nazis invaded and started WWII, Poland is counting up how...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A parliamentary commission in Poland reported Friday that the country lost more than 5 million citizens and over $54 billion dollars (46.6 billion euros) worth of assets under its...
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How a new kind of bomb and a daring nighttime raid helped the Allies cripple...
One of the most legendary successes of the Royal Air Force in World War II was a bombing raid that was written off for decades as a largely symbolic victory, but was actually a technically challenging...
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The resistance fighter who destroyed Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions in a...
OSLO (Reuters) - The leader of a daring World War II raid to thwart Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions has died aged 99, Norwegian government officials said on Sunday.Joachim Roenneberg, serving behind...
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France's president is taking heat for paying tribute to a World War I hero...
CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France — French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said it was "legitimate" to pay tribute to Marshal Philippe Pétain, who led the French army to victory in World War I's...
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Russia celebrated the 'first defeat of the German army' in World War II on Wednesday — here's what it looked likeSEE ALSO: How Soviet troops taunted the Nazis during their final drive to Berlin in...
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74 years ago, the Nazis launched their last great western offensive of World...
By late 1944, Allied forces had pushed Nazi Germany back in much of Europe, retaking Paris and Rome.US Army intelligence determined that the thick evergreen forest of the Ardennes in Belgium would be a...
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Germany agrees to pay $2,800 each to about 1,000 survivors who were evacuated...
The German government on Monday said it would issue one-time payments of $2,800 to surviving members of the Kindertransport.The Kindertransport was an effort started as World War II was kicking off to...
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79 years ago, the British won a surprise victory over Nazi Germany in the...
World War II got off to a bad start for the British.About two weeks after Poland surrendered to Germany at the end of September 1939 — succumbing to a month of the Nazi blitzkrieg — the British...
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74 years ago, the Allies beat back the Nazis' last major western offensive —...
On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and almost 1,000 tanks drove into the Ardennes forest across an 85-mile stretch of the front line, from southern Belgium to the...
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75 years ago, Soviet forces broke one of the deadliest sieges in history —...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The Russian city of St. Petersburg is marking the end of the World War II siege by Nazi forces with a large military parade in sprawling Palace Square.Russian President...
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These are the US's 9 deadliest wartime enemies
The United States wasn't the most dominant country on Earth from the get-go. For most of our nearly 243-year history, in fact, we lived by the skin of our teeth.It's a relatively recent development...
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