During WWII, 400,000 German soldiers made the U. S. their home. They were prisoners of war, and they were here because there ...

On April 6, 1917, the United States formally entered the conflict in Europe, declaring war against Germany to join Britain, France, and Russia.

World War II took place from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy and Japan — and the Allies — mainly France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States.

As the German-American historian, Fritz Stern, ruefully observed, the conflict was “the first calamity of the 20th century, the calamity from which all other calamities sprang”.

Germans joined leaders from U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria and the 7th Army Training Command for a service to honor those killed in WWII.

The Great War pivoted on a handful of turning points at sea, in the air, and on the ground.

In Germany in 1914, at the beginning of World War One, there had been great enthusiasm for war. In 1939, this was no longer the case as the vast majority of Germans only reluctantly supported the war.

According to the venerable traditions of anniversary journalism, “The Great War” is a few years late, its focus being the entry in 1917 of U.S. forces into what would come to be called the ...

German Chancellor Merz took issue with President Trump's insistence that D-Day was "not a great day" for Germans during a joint press event in the Oval Office. The post German Chancellor Objects ...