A hunt through old Berlin barracks turned into a dense wartime dump pit filled with porcelain, military paper, dog tags, gas ...

Walter Reder rose through the ranks of the Waffen-SS during some of World War II’s fiercest campaigns, fighting on the ...

The author is a socialist living in Ukraine. In late September, while on an official visit to Canada, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the Canadian parliament, gave a standing ...

The formative years -- From Verfugungstruppe to Waffen SS: the first months of war -- Toward a military reputation: the Waffen SS in the western campaign -- From west to east: the development of the ...

Long ReadAs teenagers, Philippe Douroux, Alain Lejeune and Eric Frantz learned that their fathers had been among the 10,000 Frenchmen and 8,500 Walloons to enlist in the Waffen-SS. After decades of ...

Gunter Grass, the Nobel laureate whose confessions of SS membership during the second world war have shocked his native Germany, has denied lying about his past and claimed he simply needed time to ...

Finnish volunteers in SS units took part in WWII Nazi atrocities, Finland says After an Israeli historian’s appeal to Finland’s president to examine murder of Jews, country’s state archives look into ...

The Waffen SS is the elite Nazi fighting force that holds a dark place in Germany's history. Their code is a lethal combination of bravery and savagery.

When we think about European battles of World War II, we typically imagine Germans or Italians fighting against the British, Americans, or Russians, and we might also extend that to the French, Dutch, ...

Leaders of Jewish communities and Holocaust memorial groups in Britain and the Netherlands have reacted with rage and despair at the arrival in Rotterdam of the world’s biggest ship, the Pieter ...

The speaker of Canada's House of Commons, Anthony Rota, issued a public apology, claiming he was unaware of the full extent of Hunka's wartime affiliations when he made the acknowledgment. Editor's ...