As soldiers from the Panzergrenadierbataillon 371 brigade joined allies for exercises in Norway, they were supposed to ...

In old Munich there was a butcher named Strauss who bought poultry from a breeder named Heinrich Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a ...

After four days of frenetic debate, the Bundestag voted to equip the West German army with nuclear weapons. But far from silencing the ban-the-bomb hoopla, the decision only stirred up a whole new ...

BERLIN -- Gerhard Wessel, 88, an official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation who became chief of the West German intelligence agency, died July 28 at his home in the Bavarian town of Pullach, a ...

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