A recent video showing Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi-era SS helmets while taunting an elderly Russian man has sparked outrage and criticism in Europe. The footage, which surfaced on August 15 ...

At Castle Itter, German soldiers, American troops, and French prisoners joined forces to defend against an SS assault.

American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By early May 1945 the war in Europe was all but over. Hitler was dead, having killed himself in his bunker in Berlin rather than ...

Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France.

The French and German presidents will together mark the 80th anniversary of the massacre, which saw SS soldiers kill 643 people and reduce most of the village to ruins.. Possibly as punishment for ...

German state prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former Waffen SS soldier with involvement in a Second World War massacre in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane in which 642 people, many ...

Marthe Cohn was barely 25 on April 11, 1945, and Jewish, but, being blond and blue-eyed, she could pass for an Aryan. She was French, from northeastern Alsace, but spoke German fluently.

The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division that first encountered prisoners alive at the camp 80 years ago.

Among the 20 former SS soldiers found guilty that morning of having taken part in the massacre of 642 men, women & children at Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944 (TIME, Jan. 26) were 14 Alsatians.

A far-right coalition of parties in the European Parliament has expelled Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party following their leading candidate’s comments about Nazi SS soldiers ...

(CNN) — A far-right coalition of parties in the European Parliament has expelled Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party following their leading candidate’s comments about Nazi SS ...