German fighter pilot spared enemy bomber in WWII -- and it proves empathy critics dead wrong

Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot, spared American bomber pilot Charles Brown during World War II, illustrating how ...
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German Officer Sacrificed His Life Trying to Save an American Soldier in the WWII Battle of Hurtgen Forest

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to shoot any American medics who might try ...
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Why German soldiers feared American troops by the end of WWII

During World War II, German soldiers believed American troops were weak and inexperienced. This film follows how that belief ...
Yahoo

80 years after World War II, Germany is still painstakingly searching for its fallen soldiers

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...
Task & Purpose

When Americans, Germans and POWs fought the SS from the walls of a castle

80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...
Longview News-Journal

Remembering the Wereth 11: Longview soldier among those killed in little-known World War II massacre

It was Dec. 17, 1944, and the Battle of the Bulge – one of the bloodiest, coldest battles of World War II – raged on for the ...
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German troops start long-term deployment in another country for the first time since World War II

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