The Waffen SS, a paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party’s SS organization, has often been portrayed as some of the[...] ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Nearly 1,500 Latvians paid tribute on Friday to soldiers who fought in Nazi Germany's Waffen SS divisions, while nearby Russians held a counterprotest to recall war crimes ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP) – Over a thousand Latvians on Saturday commemorated Nazi-allied World War II soldiers while police used force to prevent violence from erupting between participants and ethnic ...

RIGA, Latvia – About a thousand people have marched in Riga to pay tribute to Latvians who fought in German Waffen SS units against the Soviet Union during World War II. Jeered by protesters who said ...

During World War II, the Waffen-SS pioneered a new approach to camouflage that went far beyond uniforms. Through layered patterns, mathematical design principles, face veils, and terrain-specific ...

Felix Steiner built a reputation as one of the Waffen-SS’s most innovative commanders, shaping units like SS-Deutschland and the multi-national Division Wiking with aggressive, flexible tactics. In ...

Canada's parliament accidentally applauded a 98-year-old Nazi veteran on Friday. The gaffe rekindled calls for a monument honoring his unit to be removed from a Canadian cemetery. Yaroslav Hunka ...

The author is a socialist living in Ukraine. In late September, while on an official visit to Canada, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with the Canadian parliament, gave a standing ...

The Waffen-SS unit, Adolf Hitler’s feared and elite fighting force, camped out for two nights at nearby Cedars of Lebanon State Park. According to intelligence reports, they wore distinctive Waffen ...

BERLIN -- Nobel laureate Gunter Grass has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of a biography for claiming that he voluntarily joined the Nazis’ murderous Waffen-SS unit during World War II, his ...