DARMSTADT, Germany — Armed and battle-hardened, the U.S. Army entered Darmstadt in March 1945. Much of the city was in ruins, and neither the Germans nor those scruffy Americans had a clue as to what ...

DARMSTADT -- On their way east from France, the U.S. Army liberated numerous towns in the spring of 1945 and cleared the path for the end of World War II. Eighty years later, the Lord Mayor of the ...