In old Munich there was a butcher named Strauss who bought poultry from a breeder named Heinrich Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a ...

Maison Margiela outfits actors and musicians, not army personnel. However, the luxury fashion house has become synonymous with an enduring relic of 20th-century West German military uniforms.

The original German Army Trainer is making a comeback - or at least the version with the best claim as the true originator. The Adidas BW Army Lux sees a high quality build usher in the return of ...

When the United States and its allies took control of Germany after the end of World War II, they dissolved the Wehrmacht and banned German military uniforms and symbols. As part of a larger ...

I was born a few years later, in Heidelberg, in then-West Germany. Young Lt. Wees was on one of his early assignments working with the newly established West German military, via a NATO attachment ...

During the final two decades of the Cold War, many observers considered the West German military, the Bundeswehr, to be the most capable land force among the European NATO allies. Highly ...

After four days of frenetic debate, the Bundestag voted to equip the West German army with nuclear weapons. But far from silencing the ban-the-bomb hoopla, the decision only stirred up a whole new ...

They collected Greek camouflage jackets, West German military patches and packages of vanilla poundcakes from American military rations, assembling them for orders.

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