Tag: Germany

He walked across the bleak expanse of what was once the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, toward the gas chamber that had been stocked with liquid Zyklon B, and posed the question that still strains the conscience of modern German society. “How was it possible?” Osman Jamo asked. Yet he also wondered why the site, where barbed […]

Lawmakers in Poland are considering making a formal demand for reparations from Germany for the actions of the Nazi government during WWII. The reparations, likely to be in the form of millions of Euros, are being researched and the specifics will be presented in a report at the request of Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a conservative Polish […]

The migrant who killed one person and injured six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket was a radicalized Islamist known to German security agencies, but also believed to have psychological problems. Officials said on Saturday the agencies had believed he posed no immediate threat. A security lapse in a second deadly militant […]

The refugee wave that buffeted Germany in 2015 is now crashing down on the nation’s courts, as migrants seeking relief from the Syrian civil war challenge efforts by one of Europe’s most welcoming states to limit their rights. Some 250,000 asylum appeals are pending across Germany, according to estimates from an association of administrative court judges. Nearly […]

(You can read part 8 here) Dedication of this essay falls to SOFREP’s own brother Ryan B; thank you for your generosity in my time of need. “Memorize this route” the driver of the temporary car I was in told me. Ol’ Jed was a millionaire first thing this morning and now I was being […]

Did you hear? A Czech and a Romanian brigade will join the German army. No, this isn’t the Fourth Reich coming to get you.  It’s the birth of a common European Army—or at least some believe so. Considered as Germany’s crack unit, the Rapid Forces Division, which is comprised of airborne light infantry, special operations […]

The year was 1945 and 21 year old Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William Gray was on a combat mission over Germany in a single-seat P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft when disaster struck. His airplane came in contact with a tree and he crashed. The Defense POW/MIA said investigators recovered Gray’s remains last year. Two people who saw […]

The year was 1945 and 21 year old Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William Gray was on a combat mission over Germany in a single-seat P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft when disaster struck. His airplane came in contact with a tree and he crashed. The Defense POW/MIA said investigators recovered Gray’s remains last year. Two people who saw […]

The story of Virginia Hall reads like the script of a Hollywood spy film, except that her exploits were true. She was an operative for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), later the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and finally the CIA. Despite the loss of her lower leg in a hunting accident, Hall […]

Germany has followed through on threats to withdraw its military forces from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey after months of diplomatic tensions with the Turkish government. The forces in question composed Germany’s contribution to the coalition against ISIS, and will remain out of the fight for at least another two months as they are moved […]

As expected, protests surrounding the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, turned violent last night as thousands of protesters descended on the city to disrupt the international meeting of world leaders. 160 German police officers are reported to have been injured last night, as militant activists threw bottles, lit fires, and destroyed vehicles in the streets. […]

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Wednesday, emphasizing the importance of U.S. and European cooperation.  He also used his speech to honor the 70th anniversary of the Marshal Plan that saved millions of Europeans from starvation and what he called, […]