As elite German paratroopers descended on the island fortress of Crete in World War 2, locals described them as resembling "umbrellas falling from the sky." Russia Calls Trump ‘Emotional ...

Two German teens were denied entry to the U.S. in Honolulu. Despite having ESTA approval, the travelers were detained overnight and deported to Tokyo. Germany recently updated its travel guidance ...

During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943.

Watch the famous Deutsches Afrika Korps storm the fortress of Tobruk, or help the US and British forces defend against powerful German counterstrikes at Anzio. Fight with the elite German ...

Donald Snyder of Santa Rosa. California were told by a French civilian about 50 German paratroopers who had landed in Blosville. The three men located the Germans, who were hiding behind a church ...

Kandanos was razed on June 3, 1941, as a reprisal against the Greek resistance for the death of 25 German paratroopers and troops. It came days after Nazi troops captured the island. It is among ...

Ernst Floeter was born in August 1925 in the German town of Stettin ... s first chance meeting with prisoners from the Afrika Korps — made up of more devoted Nazis — who were caught a year ...

He has placed African nationals and democracies under ferocious attack by the Kremlin’s modern-day version of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. Mad Vlad is on the march in Africa ...

This dimension is captured especially by classic photographs of his visit with young American paratroopers ... American and German forces occurred in early 1943 at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia. Field ...

In doing so, it would not just secure a foothold in Europe, it would open a new front against the German war machine ... the former Afrika Korps commander, who had caused so many problems for ...

Teenager Jim Schmidt and his fellow paratroopers knew it was ... months earlier in the final push to drive German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps off the continent.