In the summer of 1943, the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army clashed in the Battle of Kursk—the largest tank battle in ...

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 is typically ascribed to a combination ...

It was not until the Wehrmacht exhibitions of 1995 and 2001 that this myth was refuted and it was revealed how the German military leadership, many commanders and troop units participated in mass ...

The prisoners armed themselves and one of them contacted a local German Wehrmacht Major named Josef Gangl, asking for his help in defending the Castle against the Waffen S.S. who were expected to ...

'Brutal Reality of Eastern Front Exposed by Lost German Diaries' On 22 June 1941, Hitler's Germany launched ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the attack of the Soviet Union, the largest invasion in ...

Last month, the German army published a document asserting that it bases itself on the tradition of the Wehrmacht, the army of the Nazi regime that massacred and starved tens of millions of ...

On August 25, 1944, after more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris is liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division and ...

The Wehrmacht simply went around the line, borrowing the low plains of Belgium to France's north. The line's fortifications were built to various degrees.