The armistice that came into effect at 11 a.m. local time on Nov. 11, 1918, silenced the guns of World War I, ending one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history. The National World War I Museum ...

An exhibition of German Art Posters installed in the Museum’s satellite galleries in Hedge and Roger Williams Halls on the Bates College campus. The Posters are selections from a gift of graphic works ...

Early last week, the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) launched a “cross-media image campaign.” Like earlier media campaigns, it glorifies militarism and nationalism, but this time aims even more ...

Introduction: Reading World War I posters / Pearl James -- Imaginings of war : posters and the shadow of the lost generation / Jay Winter -- War poster campaigns and images, comparative readings -- ...

Germans first heard details of the allied landing on D-Day on June 6 th, 1944 at 4.50 AM on the armed forces radio station Soldatensender Calais. “The enemy is landing with force from the air and from ...

BERLIN - The photographs are stirring: images of children purportedly killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, their faces staring out from banners in city squares in Germany. The exhibit of monochrome ...

Replete with boos, cheers, a brass band, and even a puppet show, this weekly gathering in the small eastern German city of Zittau could be easily mistaken for a pantomime performance. But the messages ...

TO FIND OUT THE WAR ENDED FOR THEM NOT OVER THERE BUT OVER HERE. IT WAS WORLD WAR TWO AND THESE GUYS WERE THE ENEMY. ON MAY 13, 1940 THREE ALL AXES ARE MISTREATED. KRIS: GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR, ...