Not one more euro of German taxpayer money, she vowed, would be contributed for this purpose.

Norwegian police troops and units from this brigade took control over Finnmark in 1944 after the German retreat from the Red Army.

This cryptographic concept has been used with Japanese Hiragana and the Germans in the later years of the First World War.

German engineers completed bridges over the Our before dark, and armor began moving to the front, adding to the Germans' vast numerical superiority.

And everyone goes, Great! He leaves the country and the French and the Germans go, No, no, forget about that, absolutely not. Nothing happens. He goes to Strasburg.

The only freedom Russians have left is to devise bitter jokes that tap the country s rich historical stores of political pathology. If they could export them, they would be as rich as Germans.

BERLIN Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel s penchant for communicating via fleeting text messages effectively marked the end of traditional historiography. Well, at least American spy agencies seem to have kept full track of the behind the scenes communications in Berlin and beyond.

The Évian conference was supposed to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of German and Austrian Jews who were desperate for refuge. Roosevelt believed that only a collective solution could meet the challenge.