The 26th Parachute Regiment is one of the German armed forces’ most elite units. Made up of around 1,700 soldiers, it has ...

German soldiers of the mountain troops take part in an exercise during a visit by German Defense Minister Pistorius. The number of German army soldiers has sunk to 181,500, despite major efforts by ...

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has described the start of a German brigade in Lithuania as a key step to improve the deployment capability of NATO forces and "an important day for the ...

In the final days of World War II, hundreds of thousands of German soldiers and civilians fled west to surrender to American forces. This story follows General Walther Wenck, collapsing German armies, ...

A German soldier told authorities that two Russian-speaking men assaulted him as he got into his car in Sulzbach-Rosenberg earlier this week, according to an Oberpfalz police statement Wednesday. The ...

German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk ...

German troops would be welcome in Poland to strengthen NATO's eastern flank against any threat posed by Russia, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna has said. His comments could signal a ...

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HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, battling German and British soldiers laid down their arms and sang Christmas carols together — a brief moment of peace in the midst of war. December 1914. World War I had been ...