Believe it or not, helmets reinforced with metal were used by the Sumerians and Akkadians as far back as 2300 B.C.E., and Mycenaean Greeks used bronze helmets (typically quite heavy) in 1700 B.C.E.

Epic History. Enigma: Breaking Germany's WW2 Codes. Posted: June 13, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. This is the story of how Allied codebreakers took on the most sophisticated encryption ...

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will supply 5,000 military helmets to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Wednesday, amid growing criticism of Berlin for its refusal to supply arms ...

BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...

Two of the three unexploded World War II bombs are defused and prepared to be loaded onto vehicles for removal, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Cologne, Germany. AP Roadways were shut down and ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Three US bombs, each with impact fuses, were found during construction work on June 2. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

June 4 (UPI) --More than 20,000 people in Germany were evacuated as authorities worked Wednesday to defuse three huge unexploded bombs from World War II at a construction site in the center of the ...

CNN — The German city of Cologne is moving 20,500 people in its largest evacuation since World War II, after officials discovered three massive, unexploded bombs. The American bombs – two 20-ton ...

Two of the three unexploded World War II bombs are defused and prepared to be loaded onto vehicles for removal, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Cologne, Germany. ( Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP) (AP) ...

Books In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father’s life under Nazism Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘The Director’ confronts his family history through the life of G.W. Pabst ...