The third volume of Peter Weiss’s masterwork The Aesthetics of Resistance opens with the narrator describing the murder of ...

On 5 May 1945, a few days after Hitler’s suicide, American soldiers under command of US Army Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. teamed up with a number of Wehrmacht soldiers under German major, Josef ...

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

An infamous venue that hosted Olympic athletes now looks unrecognisable after being left abandoned for many years.

Between 1939 and 1945 more than 17,000 Catholic German priests and seminarians were conscripted into Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Men who had devoted their lives to God found themselves advancing the cause of ...

Did the Holocaust Undermine the German War Effort? One of the great paradoxes of the ... death camps had been used to carry supplies and reinforcements to the Front, the Wehrmacht might have performed ...

but to push the Nazi Wehrmacht back into Germany. Though they finally succeeded, a powerful force of some 30,000 or more Germans were centered around the city of Colmar, forming a pocket of ...

MOSCOW, July 17. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) published for the first time a testimony by a Wehrmacht general about Nazi Germany’s wide-spread war crimes on the territory of ...

In fact, hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the ... For years many served under German command, but by January 1945 one division of the Russian Liberation ...