African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

Marius Moneth, 33, describes Lichte’s shots as a “real historical treasure” showing the conflict from a German soldier's point of view. He said: “Normally a soldier leaves behind one or ...

The German army's Military Research Institute was unable to shed more light on his military career. "In Germany such an event doesn't have the same kind of significance as it does in other ...

Above all we needed to bury the dead who were still lying in the field.' Another German soldier described the occasion as 'miraculous' as they waved at each other and exchanged gifts 'as if they ...

A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.

More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the soldier's family, who had been unaware of its existence until now. The diary of Alexander ...

During the winter of 1917, Russian and German soldiers fighting in the dreary trenches of the Great War’s Eastern Front had a lot to fear: enemy bullets, trench foot, frostbite, countless ...

The remains of more than 200 German soldiers who were buried alive in a ... they “did not find any remains,” the spokesperson said. Many WWI battles took place between the French armed forces ...

He wrote from Ypres: “The other night the British and the Germans were shouting across to each other and a German soldier asked who had won the English Cup.” The captains of Chelsea (left ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...