On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

My grandfather was a Nazi. The U.S. may have absolved him as a fellow traveler, but I'm still left to wrestle with ...

When one thinks of antisubmarine warfare (ASW) weapons of World War II, chances are the depth charge is the first weapon that comes to mind. This is understandable, since it was certainly the ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early phase of the war.

The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction ... the rise of Adolf Hitler’s blood-soaked Nazi Party to power, the Germans had long ...

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called Tuesday for wreckage from a Nazi-era warship recovered ... which adorned the legendary battleship's stern, claiming that it belongs to Berlin ...

The capture of the bridge at Remagen, a surprisingly intact path into Germany, helped U.S. troops hasten the end of World War ...

Ending years of sometimes contentious deliberations, the Galveston Wharves Board of Trustees agreed Tuesday afternoon to berth the Battleship Texas at Pier 15, securing a long-term home for the ...

A spring day in Mannheim was shattered today when, just after noon, a car ploughed at speed into a pedestrianised area of the southwest German city. There was initially a sense of déjà vu ...

Two people have been killed and five seriously injured after a car drove into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim, police say A suspect - a 40-year-old German man - has been arrested ...