The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...
Seventy Five years ago this week the strangest battle of World War II was fought in the Austrian Alps. The engagement, the Battle for Castle Itter, was so unbelievable that it could easily be a film.
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WWII Wehrmacht Treasures Found Scattered Across a Forest
In a remote woodland, we come across an area filled with World War II relics left behind by retreating German troops. Helmets ...
William J. Astore ([email protected]), a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF) and TomDispatch regular, teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. "Why do people have a fixation with the ...
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst is showing a small but significant open-air exhibition, “Dimensions ...
He found a set of watercolors at the POW camp where he was held, and that discovery rekindled his pre-war interest in art. He started making sketches of his fellow prisoners, and caricatures on scraps ...
For many in the opening years of the Second World War, the vision of the menacing, gull-winged Stuka dive bomber, plunging vertically earthwards, its sirens wailing ...
Key point: More than armies count in war. In May 1940, the German Wehrmacht launched a lightning attack into France and within weeks destroyed the combined French and British armies. The rapid defeat ...
Seventy-seven years after the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht during World War II, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democrats) used the anniversary to justify an unprecedented rearmament ...
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen is calling on the military to give new monikers to any barracks that still boast the names of Nazi-era figures. "The Bundeswehr has to send signals both ...
A photograph purportedly showing women in the League of German Girls, the female wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, during a uniform inspection in World War II is frequently circulated on social ...
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