‘The Fifteen’ Review: Lives in Captivity
The U.S. hoped that if German POWs were treated humanely, Germany would reciprocate in its treatment of American prisoners.
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Why Were Germany’s Blitzkrieg Tactics So Effective in WWII?
French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...
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FSB publishes Wehrmacht general’s testimony about war crimes on Soviet territory
In mid-July 1944, he was among 19 Wehrmacht generals captured during the Byelorussian offensive who led a column of German prisoners-of-war across Moscow (the Parade of the Defeated, also called ...
80 years ago the Allies found their bridge across the Rhine
The capture of the bridge at Remagen, a surprisingly intact path into Germany, helped U.S. troops hasten the end of World War ...
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Holocaust versus Wehrmacht: How Hitler's "Final Solution" Undermined the German War Effort
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 ...
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Crystal meth helped the Nazis conquer large parts of Europe
During WW2 German soldiers were taking a "medicine" called Pervitin, this stimulant contained pure methamphetamine, which we know today as crystal meth. "The Wehrmacht found out that Pervitin ...