“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...
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What Happened to German Soldiers After WWII?

The war ended in 1945, but for millions of German soldiers, the struggle didn’t stop there. In this video, we examine what happened to Wehrmacht and SS troops after World War II - from surrender and ...
HOHENFELS, Germany (April 28, 2008) -- We will never meet him and cannot communicate with him, but a stone etching of a bison on a cave wall can give us some insight into how the long-gone prehistoric ...
December 16th, 1944. Over 400,000 German soldiers launch a surprise attack through the Ardennes Forest, shattering American ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
For Corporal Rupert Trimmingham, it came as no surprise that he’d have to eat inside the lunchroom’s kitchen, invisible to the diners enjoying table service. This was 1944, and the Deep South.