The rule of the Third Reich was coming to its spectacular and violent finale. A demented, wild-eyed Hitler hid in his bunker under the Reich Chancellery as the Red Army surrounded Berlin and ...

BEYOND DEFEAT (312 pp.)—Hans Richter—Putnam ($3). From Germany, after World War I, came some of the most memorable of all accounts of that war (The Case of Sergeant Grischa, All Quiet on the Western ...

In a recent interview with Tageszeitung (taz), right-wing military historian Sönke Neitzel openly rehabilitates Hitler’s Army, the Wehrmacht, and its criminal traditions. Under the headline “As a ...

As Nazi Germany collapsed, the SS promised one final weapon: an underground guerrilla army called the Werewolves. Trained in ...

Not yet recognizing the extent of the defeat all along the front, Hitler and his generals saw their reverses merely as a ...

Adolf Heusinger was Adolf Hitler’s chief of staff and after World War II ended became the chief of staff for NATO forces. Heusinger did not hold the title of "chief of staff" for an extended period of ...

Hitler's former adjutant Otto Guensche was captured during the battle of Berlin in April-May 1945 and, while being kept in custody in an investigative prison in Moscow, presented a firsthand account ...

Great Britain could have lost the war on Oct. 17, 1941. On that day, Spanish police in Madrid arrested a British man for dressing as a woman out for a night on the town. The Spaniards took two ...

The last of Hitler’s army to surrender were stationed in a desolate arctic wasteland—a key vantage point in the little-known WWII battle over forecasting the weather. The German Army estabished ...

The Ghost Army is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

Does Russian President Vladimir Putin understandably feel threatened by the growing number of former USSR countries that have become democracies and are trying to align with the West and its values?

MINSK, 9 May (BelTA) – Belarus has organized a parade to the glory of those, who did not waver and who broke the might of Hitler’s Germany. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement in ...