The German 88 mm gun, one of the most iconic artillery pieces of WWII, had a well-deserved reputation for deadly accuracy and ...

Canadian soldiers took many German artillery pieces home as “war trophies” after the First World War. Almost all have disappeared. But more than a century later, one has turned up three metres ...

Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. The bombs were unearthed on Monday during ...

It reads, “Frank Murphy was born in 1921, which turned out to be bad luck. His was the generation that served as cannon fodder for World War II.” Cannon fodder?

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted ...

Germany launched a huge offensive on the Western Front in a last gamble to win the war.

The WSWS is posting here both the video and text of the speech by Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany) National Committee member Katja Rippert to the International May Day 2025 Online Rally.

Germany is stationing thousands of troops in Lithuania, the first time it's put soldiers in another country on a long-term basis since World War II.

A German organization is painstakingly searching for fallen German soldiers in order to identify them and rebury them, 80 years after World War II.

There Are Still Thousands of Tons of Unexploded Bombs in Germany, Left Over From World War II More than 70 years after being dropped in Europe, the ordnance is still inflicting harm and mayhem ...

One of three unexploded World World War II-era bombs is fenced off with screens as specialists prepare to defuse them in Cologne, Germany, on June 3, 2025.

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war.