During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S. their home. They were prisoners of war, and they were here because there ...

For the first time since World War II, Germany is deploying permanent troops beyond its borders. They have deployed soldiers to the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, to defend NATO’s Eastern flank ...

The Maginot Line was to be France's Great Wall, but with modern adaptions. The over 280 mile line ran along the border between France and its neighbors, Germany and Belgium, with the strongest ...

During World War II, these strategic tracked vehicle obstacles, aptly named "Drachenzähne" or "Dragon's teeth," formed anti-tank barriers stretching 390 miles along the German borders with ...

On Christmas Eve 1944, heavy snow blanketed the Hürtgen Forest in Germany, near the Belgian border. Inside a tiny cabin deep in the woods, 12-year-old Fritz Vincken and his mother, Elisabeth ...