As German armor lost its dominance, infantry units were forced to confront Allied tanks at close range. The answer was the Panzerschreck, a powerful rocket launcher inspired by the American bazooka.

Germans say they want a powerful military and EU nuclear deterrent to replace US hegemony, discomfiting Russia.

The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) will acquire nine training systems for the Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) under a contract worth €119.5m ($139.0m). The Federal Office of Bundeswehr ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

On March 18, 1945, Army 1st Lt. Jack Lemaster Treadwell saw eight of his soldiers gunned down while assaulting a heavily fortified, seemingly impregnable section of the Siegfried Line near ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...