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What Happened to German Soldiers After WWII?
The war ended in 1945, but for millions of German soldiers, the struggle didn’t stop there. In this video, we examine what ...
From Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 16, 1945, Pfc. Robert F. Kauffman, 19, of Emmaus was among more than 1 million American, British and German troops who fought in the Ardennes forest on Belgium’s b… ...
What was the problem? For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a broad popular narrative—reinforced through thousands of films and books—cast the German military as unthinking tools of ...
As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after World War II. I’ve been thinking about the silence at the core of our exchange ever since.