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

Located on the Rhine River, the delightful city of Cologne can trace its origins back to the Roman era. It has the largest and most famous church in Germany (and that's quite a statement).

By a treaty signed in 1921 the German Government and Bavaria agreed jointly to construct a Rhine-Main-Danube waterway ... for sending their surplus grain up the river to Czechoslovakia and southern ...

German troops crossed the River Rhine today for the first time in nearly 17 years to occupy key cities as symbols of Germany's complete emancipation from the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty.