¶ The allies want to preserve occupation laws which prohibit a revival of cartels; the Germans consider this an unacceptable limitation on their sovereignty.

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

On this day in history, July 17, 1945, after Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II, the Potsdam Conference outside Berlin, Germany, began, with Truman, Churchill and Stalin.

‘Naples 1944’ captures a liberated but desperate and collapsing city Keith Lowe vividly recounts the Italian city under Allied occupation.

The young NATO member states, those that have been in the alliance for less than three decades, are a some kind of testing ground ...

Some of the soldiers of the Jewish Brigade will probably serve in the Allied army of occupation in Germany, Moshe Shertok, chief of the political department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine ...

The foreign ministers of Austria and Germany, among Israel’s closest allies in Europe, also expressed hope that a ceasefire ...

The occupation of Germany was entering a new phase. By partitioning eastern Germany, the Allies had destroyed the old Reich. By quartering what was left into occupation zones, the Allies had ...

He also served during the Allied occupation of Germany and was later called back to service during the Korean War, just three months after I was born.

It is the heart of Germany's industrial system. Small wonder, then, that beginning with the armistice, the occupation of the Ruhr was discussed in French and Belgian circles. By controlling it the ...