On the eastern front some 140 German divisions bided their time. Wehrmacht leaders, hungry for reinforcements in the west (where perhaps 70 divisions faced the Americans, British and French ...

built as it was by former officers and generals from the Wehrmacht. The author Heinrich Böll, for example, wrote a radical anti-war novel in 1948. It took place on the eastern front – and was ...

On June 22, 1941, the German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe struck Soviet ... a significant contribution of Italian troops was on its way to the Eastern Front. A Spanish volunteer division would ...

Evgeny Khaldey/Sputnik 2. Wehrmacht soldiers on the Eastern front in 1941. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration 3. German infantry during the first months of Operation Barbarossa.

There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front. And there was ... the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps ...

Fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, this battle marked the beginning of the Wehrmacht’s decline and a massive strategic shift on the Eastern Front. It also became a symbolic duel ...

Below is the first part of a two-part review of Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941: Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization, ed. by Alex J. Kay, Jeff Rutherford, David Stahel, Rochester ...

Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries ... of thought of a highly politicised officer of the German Wehrmacht and member of the NSDAP. Follow the path of Leutnant Friedrich ...

Germany will open its last big war cemetery in Russia on Saturday, marking the culmination of a huge effort to recover Wehrmacht soldiers killed on its Eastern Front in World War II. By the end of ...