During World War II, many German officers initially dismissed Dwight D. Eisenhower as a political appointee with little real ...

“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...

Why so many German officers and Nazi officials fled to Argentina after World War II, escaping justice and building new lives ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

More than 75 years after V-E Day—the German surrender on May 8, 1945, that ended the physical fighting on the Western Front in World War II—myths and misconceptions about the war remain. TIME asked ...

After writing two columns about World War II prisoners of war connected to prominent Tennesseans, Carolyn Krause decided to include this additional information about prisoner of war camps in Tennessee ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.