In 1945, few would have predicted that Germany would reestablish an army just a decade later. Following the end of World War II — which Nazi Germany had unleashed — the country was occupied and the ...

Recruits attend a tank destruction exercise in the field at the Westfalen-Kaserne barracks of the German armed forces in Ahlen, western Germany on Nov. 13, 2025. (Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images) ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised a year ago that Germany would have “the strongest army in Europe,” but turning words into tanks, missiles and planes is proving to be very difficult. The ...

Boris Pistorius (R), Germany's Defence Minister, talks to German soldiers at the military training area. Alexander Welscher/dpa German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius met the pre-command of the ...

On Monday, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visited Lithuania to take part in the first major exercise of the Bundeswehr’s ...

The German General Major Christian Freuding, who is in charge of the German Bundeswehr’s (army) “Situation Command Ukraine” was photographed on May 9 shaking hands with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi ...

ANSBACH, Germany (June 12, 2022)– After two years of cancellations, the association for military local history (Verein für militärische Heimatgeschichte Frankenhöhe e.V.), a host nation association of ...