The Battle of Itter Castle, fought on May 5, 1945, was a desperate fight to defend high-profile French captives—including former prime ministers, generals, and even a tennis champion—against fanatical ...

To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...

Following the collapse of Wehrmacht forces in the west they would retreat toward the Seine River . A desperate bid to escape the fury of the Allies. In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I continue my ...

Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.

An infamous venue that hosted Olympic athletes now looks unrecognisable after being left abandoned for many years.

Draped in an American flag with only 48 stars, a casket held the remains of U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Arthur W. Crossland Jr.

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of ...

MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of ...

He deserves better editorial guidance and proper copy editing. Note: A volume in the University Press of Kansas series “Modern War Studies,” Holocaust versus Wehrmacht , is also available as an e-Book ...

During WW2 German soldiers were taking a "medicine" called Pervitin, this stimulant contained pure methamphetamine, which we know today as crystal meth. "The Wehrmacht found out that Pervitin ...