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

George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city ...

Nazis staying at Greenbrier during WWII were treated like aristocratic guests. They even threw a birthday party for Hitler ...

One “cursed” area used by Nazi Germany has failed any attempts at a ... hidden treasures and secret military experiments. After WW2, the red army occupied the peninsula and used it as a ...

A man from Guernsey said he was almost evacuated during the Second World War as a child before his mother had "second thoughts". Hirzel Dorey, now 91, was six years old when World War Two began ...

during World War II. Several photos of an Army Corps of Engineers dredging project in California were marked for deletion, apparently because a local engineer in the photo had the last name Gay.

Benoit Tessier/Reuters Last month, more than 175 practice bombs that had been used for training during World War II were found under a children’s playground in northern England. In 2018 ...

This, plus the support of the President, Paul von Hindenburg, was sufficient to make him Chancellor, but did not give him complete control of Germany. During the next 18 months, Hitler eliminated ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers ... the wrecked ship has the same name — Karlsruhe— as a WWII German warship found off Norway last month ...