Despite Berlin's plans to boost its military forces, the Bundeswehr still falls woefully short of filling its ranks, a new ...

The German military is facing a manpower crisis, with overall troop levels down despite a recruiting effort aimed at building ...

As college basketball season comes to a close, Jacksonville State and Liberty play for a Conference USA title and a trip to ...

13.7 million German men served in the army during the war, and this created a huge labour shortage on the home front. As they did during World War One, women played a vital role. They worked in ...

The German Army counter-attacked and recovered a lot of ... It took two weeks for the German defence to deploy enough reserve men to plug the gap and contain the allied assault.

A contingent of young men and women would then be invited to a selection process and some recruited for an initial six-month stint of military service, with the option of extending. German Armed ...

On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor.

Zsolt Balla cited the emphasis on ethics education in the German army as important to his decision to join the institution that made the Holocaust possible. (JTA) — The thought of leaving his ...