January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps.
As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...
On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...
Speaking in Davos, Chancellor Friedrich Merz also implicitly criticized President Trump’s demeaning treatment of European allies.
On Dec. 16 1944, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for less than a week. Within 72 hours, two entire regiments of the 106th Infantry ...
This video tells the story of General George S. Patton and how he disrupted German war planning during World War II. It follows Patton, the U.S. Third Army, and the decisive campaigns from France to ...
MANNHEIM, Germany – Eighty years after his death, the legacy of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. endures, yet his life was cut short not by a final, glorious battle, but by a mundane traffic accident on a ...
Note: My annual Veterans Day tribute to my parents and the Greatest Generation. Never forget! Standing on Piermont Pier at the Camp Shanks Memorial Plaque, I am transported to March 1, 1944. My father ...
In the final days of World War II, one name echoed through the chaos of Hitler’s bunker — Felix Steiner. Once a respected German general and commander of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division, Steiner became ...
German General Major Christian Freuding, left, who is in charge of the German Bundeswehr’s (army) “Situation Command Ukraine” photographed on May 9 shaking hands with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi commander ...
Philadelphia and Oxford: Casemate, 2023. Pp. x, 177. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $37.95 / £25.00. ISBN:1636243126 Senior Leadership in the Italian Campaign Andrew Sangster and Pier Paolo ...