The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

“I made a vow then and there that my kids were wearing a normal uniform to school and going ‘as themselves’. “I refuse to fall victim to the competitive mummy madness.” Chelsea argues ...

This year, German television celebrates a mightily important anniversary. 25 years ago, a depressed loaf of bread waltzed on to children’s TV screens and terrified the entire population.

The duo had been asked to come up with mascots for KiKA, a German children’s public television channel. Comic artist Georg Graf von Westphalen designed Bernd as a pullman loaf—white bread ...

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) The puppet characters on the German children’s television channel ‘Kika’ ‘Briegel der Busch’, left, and ‘Chilie das Schaf’, right, present the statue “Bernd das Brot” at ...

The duo had been asked to come up with mascots for KiKA, a German children’s public television channel. Comic artist Georg Graf von Westphalen designed Bernd as a pullman loaf — white bread ...