From fearsome Tiger tanks to Hitler's most elite SS Panzergrenadiers, Germany launched one final, desperate push to shatter ...

The SS began as a small unit tasked with guarding Adolf Hitler but evolved into one of the most powerful and feared ...

Adidas has banned Germany football fans from personalising shirts with the number 44 amid concerns it resembles the symbol used by World War Two-era Nazi SS units. The Nazi party’s Schutzstaffel group ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron stand together in the old church during a visit to the martyred village of Oradour-sur-Glane as they commemorate the ...

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One of Nazi Germany’s top Holocaust perpetrators traded rocket-making secrets for freedom, according to an investigator who researched the postwar trail of SS general Hans Kammler for more than a ...

German soldiers have been ordered to rip the labels on their uniforms off after they were mistakenly issued ones marked with the unfortunate initials “SS.” The ministry recently distributed about ...

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 War II, and who are ...