Pirmasens has an official designation of “shoe city” due to its longtime status as a footwear industry hub and it wears its ...

My mother, grandmother, and grandfather arrived in New York on the S.S. Drottningholm in October 1939. Just about everyone ...

January 4, 2026: In Europe, there is a tradition of using civilians for many military administrative jobs. German civil servants called Beamte are generally subject to the same laws and regulations ...

Chris and Iron Mike return to a German forest where British troops once advanced under fire—and the first signals instantly ...

The same German dump pit keeps paying off as more personal and uniform-related items come to light. Alongside everyday ...

What comes to mind when you think of military uniforms, thin ribbons, and medals — camouflage patterns, olive greens, and ...

White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a dimly lit room in the Museum of Gdańsk, visitors are confronted with two-dozen portraits that are lined up ...

On June 15, Germany held its first-ever national Veterans Day—a sinister milestone in the return of German militarism. Under the patronage of the federal government and the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces), ...

InvestigationCreated by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as little as possible. Today, Berlin wants to make it 'fit for war,' ...

Patrick Leigh Fermor and W. Stanley Moss in German uniforms (in the middle) with Cretan partisans prior to the abduction of German General Heinrich Kreipe. Credit: Gabriella Bullock Wikimedia Commons ...