On 16 March 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered the institution of a service award in four classes, each class reflecting the completion of a select number of years of military service. [1] The award was ...

Author David Alan Johnson discusses his new book, Admiral Canaris: How Hitler’s Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis. It ...

The troops march down the road, carrying rifles in one arm ... clip footage of a group of World War one / two army soldiers marching in a parade - Tripod Wehrmacht Soldier Close-up Portrait High angle ...

At the same time, the U.S.S.R. needed imported equipment and supplies as a matter of urgency after the Wehrmacht’s attack ...

In 1941 the nazi operation Barbarossa saw the Wehrmacht march through Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians fought and died heroically to stop the nazis, but there were also significant pro-nazi groups.

Historian Benoît Niederkorn retraces the key events during the liberation of Luxembourg by the American Army in the Second ...

[6] On 29 March, the 506th began receiving Tiger I tanks ... [15] On 21 April, the 506th was again on the offensive, supporting the 1st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht). Five tanks were also employed ...

Following the attack of the Wehrmacht in June 1941 ... The Lend-Lease Act of March 1941 went even further, allowing a ...

Americans like me, who’ve known their country at war only in the Middle East, one of the most interesting things about World ...

It was widely claimed that Nazi war crimes had been committed by the SS and other elite units, while the mainstream Wehrmacht army had - like most of the German population - remained ignorant of ...

This culminated on March 21, 1933 in the infamous “Potsdam ... The crimes of Hitler’s army, the Wehrmacht, which have been remembered with horror for generations, must be trivialised and ...

She then scaled the heights of filmmaking power to become, at least up until that point, the most commanding female movie director the world had known, channeling the marching-band-on-fascist-acid ...