Germany is deploying troops to another country on a long-term basis for the first time since World War II. It's putting thousands of soldiers in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It ...

The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency ...

HALBE, Germany — 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 coffins, ...

After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

World War I broke out in 1914 as a result of ethnic rivalry between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia. A web of secret alliances dragged country after country in until the continent was divided ...

Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Former speaker of the Bundestag Rita Suessmuth during a ceremony to unveil a ...

A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany during the last few weeks of the war will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon — and will be returning to Germany for the first time since ...