OMAHA BEACH, France (Army News Service, June 9, 2014) -- Meeting at the notorious "bloody" Omaha beach here along the coast of northern France, two former enemies talked about what happened 70 years ...

When the German offensive opened in the West in 1940, the Waffen-SS entered the campaign still trying to prove it belonged ...

The author is a socialist living in Ukraine. In late September, while on an official visit to Canada, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the Canadian parliament, gave a standing ...

During the Demyansk Pocket, German and Waffen-SS forces became encircled by Soviet armies deep inside freezing territory ...

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen SS. He told a German newspaper he had been recruited at the age of ...

But Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported on Friday that two of the pension recipients were Waffen-SS members after all. What role the two former Waffen-SS members may have had is not known, nor ...

Author Gunter Grass, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, shocked the Germany when he revealed his membership in the infamous Nazi Waffen SS during World War II. German writer Peter ...

Horst Tappert is seen here at a ceremony in Munich in 2003 German broadcaster ZDF has dropped repeat showings of a popular detective series after it emerged its late star had hidden his Waffen SS past ...

The Waffen-SS was certainly a criminal organization, but does that mean that every member of the Waffen-SS was a criminal? Military historian Peter Lieb, an expert on German war crimes in France, says ...

BERLIN, Germany (JTA) — The head of Germany’s Jewish umbrella organization is calling on Germany to review – and possibly cancel – pension payments to former SS members who were injured during World ...