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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 ...
The body of a German soldier who died in World War II has been found buried in the Netherlands by a person searching through fields with a metal detector. The detectorist found the body in the ...
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Forgotten WWII Soldiers Identified at Abandoned German Base

At a long-abandoned Wehrmacht base in the German hills, we uncover haunting reminders of the past—dog tags, personal items, ...
For 77 years, the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr., a casualty of World War II, went unidentified, including decades in a Belgian cemetery where he was known only by a number: X-2752.
Discover What’s Streaming On: We’ve seen many times how the complexities of war-related injuries forces doctors, whether in the field or back home, to create new and innovative ways to treat the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new book focuses on the story of a World War II soldier from Oregon who forged a unique friendship decades after the war ended. Some consider this story to be a sequel to ...
During my very first term of high school, I failed elementary algebra, and as a consequence was doomed to study German. It was 1942, when the war was well under way—the Second World War, for my ...
DETROIT – The remains of a Michigan soldier killed during World War II has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced this week that Army Tech Sgt. Leonard J. Dettloff, 26, of ...
CHICAGO (AP) — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI ...